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However, how do you explain that King David who committed adultery with the wife of Uriah and even had Uriah placed in the front ranks in battle so he would be killed was not punished by God

It was customary for Israelite soldiers to divorce their wives when they went away to war, in case they were missing in action. Bathsheva was legally divorced from her husband when David took her, therefore it was not considered adultery in the criminal sense.

David was condemned by Nathan because he benefitted personally, and it said "what David did was evil in the eyes of the Lord." The son that he conceived with Bathsheva died in infancy (II Samuel 11:26)

David repented of this sin over many years.

I grew up Catholic and in that religion I learned there are degrees to sin - mortal and venial sin. Murder is mortal sin. White lies or cussing are venial sins. Adultery is a moral sin. Homosexuality is adultery and it is a mortal sin.

As far as governing, I like the secular system of justice better than the law of the old testament or the law of Islam that we see in operation in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The religious hypocrites have no business administering justice as most would not know justice if it hit them in the face.

But as far as culture and social taboos - that should be decided by the people based on their own moral and health standards. My moral standards calls for rejecting the mainstreaming and acceptance of homosexual sex as deadly and immoral. I don't want my kids being taught by perverts that it is wonderful or has anything to do with love and marriage. It is in the realm of porn - adultery and it's NATURAL consequences is disease and death.

The one interesting nullification of all moral standards is that if you are not perfect you may not judge another's immoral behavior. The crowd of this thought claims Jesus banned all judgment when he protected the whore from stoning. He did not excuse her sin; he had mercy on her as she was given another chance to straighten up by him. He told her to sin no more just as he withheld the hand of judgment against her for her sin. He is the One of mercy; not the one of no judgment. To repent in Christianity involves judging one's own behavior as sinful and turning from it in sorrow. And if we fail to do that, we will be judged by God and it won't be pretty according to the Catholic religion. We are to judge immoral behavior - our own and others - and we are to do our best to straighten up. The courts never belong in the business of trying to establish social moral standards because they are trying to establish a National religion with themselves as the gods.