I guess since I am okay your conclusions, I should be quiet, but I can’t. This is some very misleading Biblical scholarship. There is only one reason the Hebrew Scripture Law should no longer apply: it’s because it’s a bunch of well meaning foolishness. Every last bit of it. Any other reasoning that tries to reconcile or remove the Law is just bad theology. Be honest: would you ever make such an argument in the case of incest or bestiality? By your reading, love of neighbor isn’t valid because it is, indeed, a law of the Torah. But no liberal ever makes such a case. They all do what you have done. Or, worse, come up with unproven justifications about temple priestesses or pedophilia. The problem with this is you ignore parts of Leviticus (and subsequently, stories in Exodus and Numbers) that attest to the seriousness of the Law. Leviticus is not the book against homosexuality. It says a lot of things we still follow today. The “Holiness Code,” which is a popular name of part of Leviticus, is an anachronism that seeks to hide the harsh reality of what is written in this book. Leviticus 24:10-23 is not written as if the Law is some minor thing. God isn’t like “Oh, be holy if you can! If not, don’t stress it.” THEY KILL A GUY BECAUSE GOD TOLD THEM TO! The Hebrew Scriptures is filled with these isolated episodes. It would stand to reason that if the text tells us they, indeed, put people to death under direction of The Lord, then it is highly unlikely that Leviticus 20:13 was to be taken lightly. The reality is, none of our after the fact, misleading scholarship has any base within the text and reading the Bible should let us know that, according to the Hebrew Scriptures, the reason for an act is immaterial – it is the act itself that supposedly angers God and angering God is BAD and has DEADLY consequences. So if you’re being true to the Bible – and not an agenda intent on approving of a certain kind of homosexuality – you know God doesn’t want to hear sob stories about monogamy, I was born this way, the text was really about little boys, or it was about profaning the temple, and so on, and so on. God doesn’t want men having sex with men. Period. But as I said earlier, I think the Hebrew text is an exaggeration that God was never a part of, so that’s why I feel the “Law” no longer applies. I think it never applied.