So your justification is that the Catholic Church has been granted the power to exercise a veto over the express will of god? “This is what I sincerely believe to be the will of god revealed to me through the intercession of the holy spirit, but the authority of this group of aging celibate European men is greater than the authority of god”?

Interesting idea, I guess…men know better than god.

“Even without the Church, Scripture rules out almost all the kind of behavior you suggest is allowable based on obeying one’s conscience or beliefs.”

>>That’s the understanding you embrace yourself. The thought experiment I proposed involves a situation where one does not understand scripture to rule out the specific behavior I described, but in fact that it leads to a revealed understanding that ‘kind of behavior’ is exactly how god demands you behave.