Amazing. Thank you for posting such a clear, direct link, to such an on-point answer.
Even given that "the Church" presumes to speak for "the Lord" in such detail, I still would not find it terribly objectionable (any more objectionable, say, than the SBC continuing to refuse ordination to women) if (and it's a big if) it were only applied to members--that is, if it were only applied to adults who freely and informedly consent to the "rules". Where you, and others like you, do err is when you arrogate to apply your superstitions, the "rules" of your 'god', to people who do not believe in your 'god'; people who did not consent; people who are not and have no desire to be part of your cult.
You, and others like you, and others not very much like you at all, have a right to worship as you see fit. You, and others like you, and others not very much like you at all, have no right to try to ensure that others live up to the standards of your superstitions.
What goes on among consenting adults, on my land, affects no-one but the adults consenting to participate. What goes on in your church should do the same. It is as wrong, as "disgusting and abhorrent" for you to pretend the right to enforce your "rules of behaviour" outside your church as it would be for me to pretend the right to enforce my standards of behaviour outside the confines of my chambers.
