Since you long for the good ole days of wife beating, where do you stand on the right of the religious to marry 11 year olds? Would it be another infringement by the atheist government on the right of the religious to bed little girls?
Or it all got lost in translation, and the bible and church dogma is wrong. As usual you look for a binary true/false answer which no one is suggesting suits the questions that we all try to answer about life. Personally I am tired of debates intended to trip the other person up rather than actually discussing what others believe.