I'm aware that coming as we are through the middle ages where so many things have been politicized and lost and found again and lied about and reiterated and used for evil and good -- that Bible translations are somewhat questionable. I realize that we are looking at a history of a lot of unnecessary trouble when we look at the history of Bible translations, and I realize that the Bible has been abused to support southern USA slavery, South American slavery and many other bad things. I'm aware that the current popular translations sell well to the current group of Christians who think anything icky or different must automatically be evil, who think its convenient to ignore the plight of the weak and vulnerable while we watch television and eat on couches. We think its OK to only occasionally contribute and perfectly Christian to just sometimes do a good deed. We are the brother of the destroyer in this sense. It stands to reason that we would accuse homosexuals of all of the evil that we ourselves are guilty of, because that is what guilty people do. So we continue to stand behind these poor translations that help no one.Leviticus20:13 "'If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Deuteronomy12:31You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
So here we have God's word saying that Anal sex is detestable and that worshipping false gods is also detestable to Him,just as I mentioned in a previous comment.
You said ,"I just think that 'Detestable practices' as mentioned isn't about anal sex which is a problem in the way that picking one's nose is. 'Detestable practices' given what Ingledsva just pointed out, has to do with really terrible things like enslavement, temple prostitute sex, prostitution of children, men selling their daughters as prostitutes and that kind of thing -- really horrible things"
What you think and what God says are two different things.
By the way,sodomy and worshipping false gods are really horrible things to God.