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The Bible is written to three different audiences. Everything in the Bible, while profitable, is NOT directed at everyone (Jesus's admonition not to cast pearls before swine). 1) Most of the Old Testament is written to the Jews as a prophetic light to JC. As Paul makes clear, Christians are "new creatures," and repeatedly he notes that we are not "under the law." 2) The New Testament is written to believers, a guide book as to how to "walk by faith." Of course they are good "moral principles" for anyone, but anyone who isn't a believer simply cannot access the power of God or the Holy Spirit. 3) Sinners are addressed only in the admonitions to repent and come to Jesus. Paul repeatedly states that a sinner cannot understand the Word of God without being born again.

So, the sodomy laws were specifically written to the Jews---but here's the catch: they were repeated on several occasions to Christians in the New Testament. Therefore, they are different and set apart from "mixing" laws about cotton and wool, or meat and milk; or from shellfish, or even the jubilee laws of the Old Testament. That alone should tell people something: that the restrictions against homosexuality are so significant that they transcend BOTH Hebraic law and the "Law of Love" in the New Testament.

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!

So well written, you must be clergy. If not, you should be.

Could that dream vision Peter had about the animals be a confirmation of what you have said in the second paragraph about Christian believers and the Jewish dietary laws?