Dorothy, besides the salient point that Ron makes, have you read Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20 in their completeness? Being sure you have, I have the feeling you’ve missed the forest for the trees. Why would God have to tell some man not to have sex with his father’s wife, his uncle’s wife, his son’s wife, a woman and her daughter, a woman during her period, another man, an animal, to sacrifice his child to a foreign God, etc.? First, it becomes clear (to me, at least) that the man whom God is addressing is the head of a clan or tribe who not only has responsibility for all the persons named (the father and mother being aged and, therefore, unable to bear responsibilities for the clan/tribe as they had in the past) but also has great power, which, of course, is required in order to fulfill his responsibilities to ensure that the needs of the clan/tribe are met. God is telling him, basically, “Don’t let your power go to your head, so that you begin thinking that you can do whatever you want to do with whomever you wish in order to show them who’s boss! And don’t go trying to appease other gods as the Canaanites did.” It is the abuse of others in an attempt to assert one’s power and the turning to other gods that God finds “detestable,” not gay sex per se. When we take individual passages out of context as you – and many others before you – have done, we actually are using our rational powers in a way that often ends up abusing others, and, according to this passage, that is something God finds detestable.