If you cannot as a Christian movement stand up IN PUBLIC for Old Testament legal principles, you are disconnected from your own heritage in Western Civilization and, probably, you're just a cult that can only survive by lurking in the shadows, strangling it's enemies in secret. A parasite. A demon. A cancer.
If you have something to contribute, contribute it. We'll learn, together. I'm all for it, but no more cowardly scheming to keep the public in your clutches.