No, you don't get it because you are applying your own bias and modern sensibilities to an ancient tradition that STILL EXISTS in that part of the world
But that's exactly the point I was making: that these are antiquated, barbaric values appropriate (maybe) to a harsh, cruel, insensitive culture, but completely wrong -- appallingly wrong -- for modern times and modern society. I am, after all, addressing modern people who live in a modern society, am I not? I mean, everyone who lived in ancient Sodom is long since dead, is that not so? And none of us here is a Bedouin nomad or a primitive Afghan sheepherder, right?
I do not doubt that the authors of the Book of Genesis, whoever they were, considered Lot's behavior appropriate to their own values. That is, in fact, exactly my point: because they are not values that any civilized society should accept. And the Bible cannot at the same time enshrine those primitive, barbaric values and be anything appropriate to modern people living in a modern society. The two are absolutely incompatible.
Are you saying that the muslim culture is wrong (because they still live like this)?