Salt of the Earth

The difference between Sodom and Gomorrah
and your town, USA? Don't ask a priest.
Referring to the passage in the Torah,
some questionable beauties, but no Beast,
though plenty on the flaws in human natures,
both real and imagined by old men
and hastened into law by legislatures
that claim to know the details of God's plan.
His wrath? Oh, that's a common enough story.
His meting out a punishment: pure joy.
What softer hearts forgive as allegory
the harder ones call reason to destroy.
Our values, they will preach, under assault.
Please take these pillars with a grain of salt.