Great essay Ron – but another point regarding the Leviticus passage is that this is another poorly interpreted passage when it was brought over into the English language. First, this passage condemns gay ritual sex in a Pagan temple, but the misinterpretation is stating simply that “a man should not lie with another woman” when a more accurate translation of the original text is “males having sex in a woman’s bed.” Also “abomination” or “enormous sin” is also a poor translation of the Hebrew word, which actually means “”ritually unclean”.