ceremonial law.24 This fact unquestionably places God’s prohibition of homosexuality in the category of moral law, obligatory upon all peoples in all places. God nowhere prescribed death as a possible penalty for those who refused to circumcise their sons,25 mixed their fabrics, missed a Passover meal, or failed to make it to Jerusalem for one of the three required annual feasts. These persons were excommunicated; they were to be “cut off” from among the people, but they were not put to death. Present-day