“The history of the most polished nations of antiquity is but a record of the most shameful and abominable sins against nature: and even the wisest, and those reputed the most virtuous among the wise men, were guilty of these shameful lusts. Tertullian (Libro de Anima, chap I, and in Apologetico adversus Gentes, chap XLVI) testifies this regarding the wisest ancients; viz., Socrates. Even the “divine” Plato is charged with the same. Theoderet (Libro de Legibus) charges him with praising and promising rewards to these unnatural, shameful indulgences. This is true of the other philosophers of antiquity: ‘Receiving in themselves the recompense due to their error.’ As they against the order of nature, ignominiously abandoned the Creator, and transferred His honor to the creature, it was a just punishment on the part of the Creator to abandon them in turn, and suffer them to perpetrate deeds of impurity against the order of nature also.”

With Sodom and Gomorrah, God had to resort to fire and brimstone.