With respect, I do want to challenge you on your assertion that if we were to remove this it would bring a religious service down to the level of “a university lecture”. Do you honestly think that if we were to remove section 176 and an offence was committed in a place of worship, a judge presiding over that case would view that on the same level as a disturbance at a university lecture?
We have to look not just at the way the law is written but at how it's interpreted, and I think any judge in his or her right mind would place the two occurrences on vastly different planes as to what the outcome was and what the offence was for the people who were involved.