I appreciate your attempt to deal with the Leviticus passages in a way that removes them from their historic use as “clobber passages” regarding homosexuality. You take an interesting angle here; and yet, as a gay clergyman, I’m not persuaded. One passage you don’t cite that I believe would be harder to refute with Paul’s Galatians quote if the critics were to use it is Jesus’ statement about his relationship to the law: “17 ‘Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. 18For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter,* not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. 19Therefore, whoever breaks* one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 5.17-20). Of course, we can try to say that the way to fulfill the whole law is through faith in the Christ who, as you say, became the curse for us; but the concreteness with which Jesus refers to the details of the law here makes a refusal to apply the law as a measure of righteousness appear dangerously antinomian. Even James claims that “works” show one’s faith; which makes it seem that the kinds of works to which he is referring are not simply works of mercy but also works that reveal holiness of heart and mind, works that commend the person to others, including the non-believers who are near.