[so_real]

What you say is contrived and untrue; why would you attack a church's gospel mission over a dress code? It's truly not so difficult to have both and I'd be surprised if your church did not have a dress code of it's own. Ask your bishop/deacon/elder; the answer may surprise you. My point is simply that private establishments can, and should be allowed, their own rules of etiquette. We as consumers of the services they provide can either abide by those rules, humbly request to be made an exception to them, or patronize a different establishment. Using social outrage as a means to ignore the rules erodes our right to assemble freely. Have we not seen enough of our liberties incrementally eroded already.

[EricT.]

My church has a dress code only for people who are actively working in a ministry involved in worship services. We must not wear shorts and flip-flops, and that’s about it. People who come to worship God are free to come just as they are as long as it’s legal. We don’t believe in shutting out people from worshiping God because of how they look.