Ancient Gasser aims to offend:

This new lever of change is what I shall call “Another 11th Commandment.” The commandment is simply stated: Thou shalt not offend.
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I personally refuse to accept the legitimacy of this 11th commandment. To do otherwise would mean that I must suppress expression of my own beliefs. If you accept this 11th commandment, then you cannot express your own beliefs in any but the most familiar of environments without risking “offending” someone, or, heaven forbid, lots of someones.

Touché. "Thou shalt not offend" is merely another expression of hedonism, the worship of feelings.

AG waxes philosophic about values and beliefs:

Doesn't our behavior and our acceptance of behaviors stem from our values? Don't our values come from our beliefs? Of course they do. They always have. They always will.

But this relationship works both ways. If we change our behavior, then we must change our values and then we must change our beliefs so that our behavior is acceptable within the context of our personal values and beliefs. If we do not change our values and beliefs to embrace behaviors that we find acceptable, then we must be living in a state of hypocritical conflict.

AG proposes: beliefs values behavior. What he really means is: actual beliefs --> actual values --> behavior. Of course, if behavior stem from values and beliefs, then any changes in behavior are actually reflections of changes in values and beliefs. In other words, it's not bidirectional as AG claims. When he speaks of the reverse direction, what he seems to mean is: behavior --> stated values --> stated beliefs. Without changing our stated values and beliefs, we are hypocrites. What AG doesn't acknowledge is the usually huge gulf between stated values and beliefs and actual values and beliefs.

Where this error in logic gets AG into trouble is in understanding the changes in the church.

The Christian church, like the rest of us, cannot accept these [unchristian] behaviors without changing its beliefs. But, how can that be? Are the church's beliefs not founded upon and based upon scripture? Does the church follow societal norms? Isn't the church supposed to be a bedrock of leadership? What made the church change?
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The churches have bought into this new commandment in a big way. They neither say this nor even believe this, but when you look at their policy of “inclusion,” their acceptance of Thou shalt not offend becomes obvious.

He posits the avoidance of offense (behavior) as the cause of its inclusion policies (values) and thus its "modernized" doctrine (beliefs), building upon his reversal of causation. In fact, he's wrong here. The church changed its beliefs first by abandoning the authoritative Word of God, then by embracing the hedonistic worship of feelings, the behaviors devolved. All the while, the church continued to state its beliefs as Biblical, but they were lying, mostly to themselves (and the undiscerning). Such hypocrisy is actually the norm, not the exception.

The lesson to learn here is not about taking offense, values, or politics. It's about the Word of God. Once you no longer choose to submit to the authority of the Lord and His Word, you implicitly choose to subscribe to "cafeteria theology". That is, you get to pick and choose which portions of Scripture to believe. Once this door is opened, it becomes increasingly easy to justify doctrines that are further and further away from God's values. Passages condemning homosexuality can be reinterpreted for modern times, or so church leaders lie. Jesus' claim that nobody comes to the Father but by the Son can get called into question, leading to universalism (all faiths being supposedly valid). Once these flexibilities are exploited, then absolute truth no longer exists, and relativism ensues. The faith, once so clearly defined by the whole of Scripture, can then be twisted into anything anyone wants it to be.

Ancient Gasser has finally recognized the fruit of the abandonment of God and His Word, while still failing to recognize the root cause. His 11th Commandment is not the cause but just another symptom, the one that finally got his attention drawn to the decline of the modern church. Only a return to submission to God's authoritative Word (all of it) can remedy the church's woes and restore the freedom of expression.