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The Levitical religious laws simply don’t apply to Christians. The Lord said to Peter during the white sheet vision: “Don’t call anything that I’ve cleansed unclean.”

This was a very specific vision given in the context of gentiles being called into God's church. Peter tells us what his vision meant:

Act 10:28 Then he said to them, "You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

Peter, a direct disciple who knew Jesus Christ personally, did not believe what you are saying. He believed what he said. Anything else is revisionist addition to his vision.

Here is the impasse, Doug. I think God has given freedom in these things, and you think God still requires them. That’s it in a nutshell.

I think God has given us these things for our benefit and salvation. I think pride fullness and tradition prevent many from embracing what God has freely given us.

This doesn't say what you think it says. It says that Peter the Jew can company with Gentiles.

He says in the clause describing what God has shown him:

NOT CALL

Any Man

Common or Unclean

Peter, a direct disciple who knew Jesus Christ personally, did not believe what you are saying. He believed what he said.

Peter got the memo, correctly.

Gal 2:11-14
11 When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.
12 Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.
13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?

Peter was not only hanging out with the Gentiles, but he was eating with them. Peter knew exactly what the vision meant.

JM