The city of Ugarit experienced a very long history. The city was
  built on the site in the Neolithic period around 6000 BC (modern
  Ras Shamra on the Syrian Mediterranean Coast). The oldest written
  evidence of the city is found in some texts from the nearby city
  of Ebla written around 1800 BC. At that time both Ebla and
  Ugarit were under Egyptian hegemony. In the period 1200 - 1180 BC
  the city steeply declined and then mysteriously came to an end.
    The prophets of the Old Testament rail against Baal, Asherah
  (Ashtaroth, Judes 2:13) and various other gods on nearly every page.
  The reason for this is simple to understand; the people of Israel
  worshipped these gods along with Yahweh and sometimes instead
  of Yahweh the God of Israel. This Biblical denunciation of these
  Canaanite gods gained new insight when the Ugaritic texts were
  discovered, because at Ugarit these were the very gods that were
  worshipped. Knowing who the bible is speaking of and railing against
  as Baal, gives meaning to the original context of many misinterpreted
  verses assigned to such things as the sin of homosexuality while
  in context is in fact the worship practices to Baal etc.
     The Old Testament also celebrates the enthronement of Yahweh,
  as in the Ugaritic myth, the purpose of Yahweh’s enthronement
  is to re-enact creation. That is, Yahweh overcomes death by his
  recurring creative acts (and of course later Jesus takes on this
  quality as well, the Eucharist is a form of the word Ugarit).
  The major difference between the Ugaritic myth and the Biblical
  hymns is that Yahweh’s kingship is eternal and uninterrupted while
  Baal’s is interrupted every year by his death (in the Fall).
  Since Baal is the god of fertility the meaning of this myth is
  quite easy to understand. As he dies, so does the vegetation die;
  and when he is reborn so is the world (1 Kings 18:26-27). Not so
  with Yahweh; for since he is always alive he is always powerful. In
  really bad times there is evidence that they would actually sacrifice
  their children to Baal, as Abraham was called to do. Gen 22:9-10.
     Baal and Molech (another form of Baal in the Baalim religion)
  had as their priests the Chemarim, they are the high holy ones, or
  the consecrated ones. Males and females were the temple prostitutes,
  sometimes the men would be dressed as women to make it easier to
  give seed to Baal-Molech to entice Baal to have sex with his wife,
  the money was collected by the Chemarim priests (Sodomites) and
  they were referred to as dogs (pimps) in the bible. Only the rich
  could afford to actually have sex with the Chemarim themselves,
  which would be like having a blessing from the Pope himself.
  This in no way implied they were homosexuals, they were doing
  their religious duty to receive the seed for Baal and collect the
  money for the upkeep of the temple. It is the same as Christians
  today are no more cannibals for drinking the blood and eating the
  body of Christ, than the Chemarim or the temple prostitutes were
  homosexuals for doing their religious duties, both is an act
  of performing a religious rite, not an act of cannibalism or
  homosexuality.
      The rituals performed in Ugaritic worship involved a great
  deal of alcohol, sexual promiscuity and temple prostitution.
  Worship at Ugarit was essentially a drunken orgy in which priests
  and worshippers indulged in excessive drinking,  excessive
  sexuality and prostitution which paid for the upkeep of the
  temples (in fact, any kind of sex was used to entice the gods
  and since Molech was a calf faced god it was often with calves).
  This was because the worshippers were attempting to entice
  Baal to send rain on their crops by Baal having sex with his wife
  to bestow fertility upon the land, animals and people. Since rain
  and semen were seen in the ancient world as the same thing (as
  they both produced fruit), it simply makes sense that participants
  in a fertility religion behaved this way, to entice Baal to have
  sex with his wife Asherah (with Ashtoreth as the common name,).
  This is why in Hebrew religion the priests were forbidden to partake
  of wine while performing any rituals. (Lev 10:8-11, Hos 4:6-19, and
  Isa 28:7). Paul put it this way in Corinthians:
  1 Cor 6:15  "Know ye not that your bodies are the members of
  Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them
  the members of an harlot?  God forbid.
  16  What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one
  body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
  17  But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
  18  Flee fornication (idolatrous whoredom). Every sin that a man
  doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth
  against his own body.
  19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
  Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
  20  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
  body, and in your spirit, which are God's."

  And the Old Testament said:
  Deu 23:
  17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a
  sodomite of the sons of Israel.
  18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog,
  into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both
  these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

  Which is explained by:
  Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706)
  Deuteronomy Chapter 23
   II. The land of Israel must be no shelter for the unclean; no
  whore, no Sodomite, must be suffered to live among them (v.17,18),
  neither a whore nor a whoremonger. No houses of uncleanness must
  be kept either by men or women. Here is, 1. A good reason intimated
  why there should be no such wickedness tolerated among them: they
  were Israelites. This seems to have an emphasis laid upon it. For
  a daughter of Israel to be a whore, or a son of Israel a whoremaster,
  is to reproach the stock they are come of, the people they belong
  to, and the God they worship. It is bad in any, but worst in
  Israelites, a holy nation, 2 Sam. 13:12.
  2. A just mark of displeasure put upon this wickedness, that the
  hire of a whore, that is, the money she gets by her whoring, and
  the price of a dog, that is, of the Sodomite, pimp, or whoremaster
  (so I incline to understand it, for such are called dogs, Rev. 22:15),
  the money he gets by his lewd and villainous practices, no part
  of it shall be brought into the house of the Lord (as the hire of
  prostitutes among the Gentiles was into their temples) for any
  vow. This intimates, (1.) That God would not accept of any offering
  at all from such wicked people; they had nothing to bring an
  offering of but what they got by their wickedness, and therefore
  their sacrifice could not but be an abomination to the Lord,
  Prov. 15:8. (2.) That they should not think, by making and paying
  vows, and bringing offerings to the Lord, to obtain leave to go on
  in this sin, as (it should seem) some that followed that trade
  suggested to themselves, when their offerings were admitted.
  Prov. 7:14, 15, This day have I paid my vows, therefore came I
  forth to meet thee. Nothing should be accepted in commutation
  of penance. (3.) That we cannot honour God with our substance
  unless it be honestly and honourably come by. It must not only be
  considered what we give, but how we got it; God hates robbery for
  burnt-offerings, and uncleanness too.

      The separating of the two religions (Baalim and God) and
  their rituals became the guiding force for much of biblical law.
  Where we can see in:
  Lev 10:8  "And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,
  9  Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with
  thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest
  ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
  10  And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and
  between unclean and clean;
  11  And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes
  which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses."

     The clean was mostly whatever God wanted and the unclean was
  anything else. Of course this puts light upon Leviticus 18, in
  that the "children of Israel" were coming to Canaan (in the
  biblical version), and God said to Moses:
  Lev 18:1  "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
  2  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the
  LORD your God.
  3  After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall
  ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I
  bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
  4  Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk
  therein: I am the LORD your God."

    Then comes the description of the sexual rites to Baal-Molech,
  (where Molech who was a calf face god, is another name of the
  Baalim religion, much like Baptist, Protestant and Catholic are
  the same religion but under different names and different ways to
  worship. Seed can be either your children or semen.)
  Lev 18:21 "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through
  the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy
  God: I am the LORD.
  22  Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
  abomination.
  23  Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself
  therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie
  down thereto: it is confusion.
  24  Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all
  these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:"
  Lev 19:29 "Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a
  whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full
  of wickedness.
  30  "Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary:
  I am the LORD."
  (Deu 23:18 "Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price
  of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for
  even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God."
  1 Cor 6:19  "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
  the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye
  are not your own?")

  It is further explained, and as a more intense penalty, if you
  do not fear God's wrath then man will give this punishment:
  Lev 20:2 "Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel,
  Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers
  that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech;
  he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall
  stone him with stones.
  3  And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off
  from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto
  Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
  4  And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from
  the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
  5  Then I will set my face against that man, and against his
  family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after
  him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people."
  Lev 20:13 "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a
  woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall
  surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them...
  15  And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to
  death: and ye shall slay the beast.
  16  And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto,
  thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be
  put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
  (1 Cor 6:15  "Know ye not that your bodies are the members of
  Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them
  the members of an harlot?  God forbid.
  16  What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one
  body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh."
  1 Cor 6:19  "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
  the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye
  are not your own?"
  Deu 23:18 "Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price
  of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for
  even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.")

  One can make an exegesis analysis of the words in Leviticus 18
  To see more clearly the original context.
  Lev 18:21 "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through
  the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy
  God: I am the LORD.
  22  Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
  abomination.
  The five hebrew words for verse 22 are:
  shakab, zakar, mishkab, 'ishshah, tow`ebah
  The translation for the words are:
  Lie sexually, male of human or animal, bed or lying down,
  female of human or animal, and ritual abomination.
  The abomination is a ritual one not just detestable, but is one
  used in the telling of an act that is in connection with a
  ritual (as Deu 17:1), as giving seed to Baal-Molech, and the
  male can be a human or an animal. Which actually blurs the
  translation given, in the 81 occurrences of the word, 67 just mean
  a male, 7 mean man, 2 for mankind and 4 for child (as Gen 17:10).
  The verse could be equally translated as
  Man shalt not lie sexually with female animals in bed it
  is ritual abomination. (or the other way around as the female
  is with a male animal)

  23  Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself
  therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie
  down thereto: it is confusion.
  The ten hebrew words for verse 23 are:
  nathan, sh@kobeth, b@hemah, tame',  'ishshah, `amad, paniym,
  b@hemah, raba`, tebel
  The translation for the words are:
  Give or put, copulation, beast-cattle, female of human or animal,
  stand, before or face animal, beast-cattle, lie down for
  copulation, and confusion.
  While the translation of the verse is mostly correct the word
  "beast" (b@hemah) refers to cattle, not just any beast but
  cattle. Given the context of worshiping a calf face god Molech,
  it would be more correct to have said calf or bull not "beast".
  The general word for beast or animal is "chay" not b@hemah.
  This verse is tied to the worship of Molech, and the ritual
  abomination in verse 22 shows the context is Lev 18:21-24,
  which is not telling of homosexuality but of rituals to
  Baal-Molech.

  24  Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all
  these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:"

  What is being said is this:
  Hosea 5:3 "I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for
  now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
  4  They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for
  the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have
  not known the LORD.
  5  And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore
  shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall
  fall with them."
   

  The conclusion is clear in the context of history and the
  original words used in the bible, that Leviticus 18 and 20
  are not about homosexuality they are about ritual sexual
  rites to Baal-Molech.