"Observing all things that I have commanded you"

Under Muslim sharia law there are five crimes known as the Hadd offenses. Because these offenses and their punishments are specifically mentioned in the Quran, committing them is considered an especial affront to Allah. They are:

• Wine-drinking and, by extension, alcohol-drinking, punishable by flogging
  
• Unlawful sexual intercourse, punishable by flogging for unmarried offenders and stoning to death for adulterers
• False accusation of unlawful sexual intercourse, punishable by flogging
• Theft, punishable by the amputation of a hand
• Highway robbery, punishable by amputation, or execution if the crime results in a homicide

What interests me about this list is that it would seem to be easy for Christians to live in such a way as to avoid violating these laws. Four of these five are also strongly condemned by Christians. And it should be easy for a Christian not to drink wine, right? (Given the church culture here in the Bible belt, why would a Christian even consider drinking wine?)
Wine drinking, however, is not immoral. In fact Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper with wine and commanded that we drink it. Because of their Lord's example, Christians in Sudan choose to risk the flogging they will incur if caught with wine (which is hard to come by in Sudan anyway) rather than to compromise and drink "juice" with the Supper.
I'm sure I will have more to say on this in the future. For now let me commend these Sudanese Christians for not giving wine over to the devil as have American evangelicals and for actually doing what the Lord has said to do. Maybe if our government banned us from drinking wine with Communion then we would drink it, too, perhaps out of definace. If so, then why can we not do it now, out of obedience? Why are we tacitly more obedient to the early 20th century political marriage of the temperance movement with the church than we are obedient to our Lord?