Thanks for some of the informative background here, Steve and vienna
Now, I'm not an expert on Baptist theology specifically, but it also strikes me that there might be some religious issue with "God told me stuff so I'm doing it". Although I suppose in general, Evangelical Christianity does stress this idea of personal contact with God, but I didn't think that it was accepted as basis for making decisions like this, especially by such a major denomination. At least my hunch is that this could also be theologically incorrect.