I could say more about this, but I believe I’ve made my basic point. I will conclude, however, by pointing out that it is not only at the end of 18.22 that the word “abomination” is used to refer to the act just mentioned, but the word “abomination” is used four more times, in verses 26-30, in clear reference to all the acts mentioned in Lev. 18; and it isn’t only the male-on-male sex that gets the death penalty in Lev. 20, but it is also one who curses his parents (9), one who screws his neighbor’s wife along with that wife (10), the man who screws his father’s wife and that wife (11), etc. Clearly, throughout all this, God is addressing a man who might be prone to letting his power go to his head – both heads, if you will – and God intends to head off such abusive tendencies before they even begin to take hold. When we read the anti-homosex passages in Lev. 18 and 20 without recognizing the overall context in which they appear, we ourselves are acting in the way that the person God is addressing in those two chapters is being ordered not to act; we are abusing our position of power and authority to put in their place others whom we consider inferior to ourselves; and God is ordering such persons as do that with these and other passages not to commit such abominations as these.