Allowing Our Religions To Evolve

TWO GIRLS GREW UP in the Mormon church, then got married to each other and adopted a child by utilizing civic, secular institutions, including the U.S. Supreme Court. But they are good Mormons, and love their church, as they always have. They want their child to be baptized within the church, but so far, the church refuses. And this, in a nutshell, is my problem with the Christian faith. The bible very clearly articulates a moral code, a code of behavior, which is entirely outdated and out of touch with today's realities. Humanity progresses as it gradually changes, evolving culturally. Throughout human history homosexuals have been mistreated, but now, at long last, we are correcting our past mistakes. By what process do organized and long standing religions correct themselves, and improve? By a very slow and difficult one, at best. Unless I'm dreaming, Mathew 15 4 Jesus tells us to honor our fathers and mother, and to follow the law of the old testament, in Leviticus, by which disobedient children must be put to death. Similarly, anyone who works on the Sabbath is to be put to death. Wouldn't it be nice if our modern churches could overcome their traditional outdated ways, and, for instance, allow a lesbian couple to baptize their kid within the church? What harm would it do? Does religious liberty include the freedom to disobey modern civil law by engaging in ancient religious beliefs and practices which are bigoted, brutal, and or barbaric? In our modern world, we cannot condone murder and slavery and bigotry, although the Bible certainly seems to.