The Proper Question: Where Is Christianity?

The essay here argues that Vermeule's "common good Constitutionalism" is really an effort to subvert 'freedom' with a natural-law Christian Ordo Seclorum.

...He illuminates the dependence of the American political order on principles of justice nowhere explicitly laid out in the Constitution but clarified in classical works of political philosophy, jurisprudence, and theology. All the while, however, he obfuscates the modern tradition of freedom, which decisively shapes the political morality that gave birth to and sustains the Constitution. It is one thing to argue that we have diminished our moral resources by abandoning America’s classical and biblical heritage. It is quite another to banish to the shadows of the American tradition the political morality of limited government and its cornerstone conviction that human beings are by nature free and equal—a distinctive interpretation of the dignity inherent in our humanity linked to, but not asserted by, the classical philosophers or the Bible....

The better question is this:  What happened to Christianity's shaping of citizen morality?  

The essay's Libertarian twist is very comfortable with Court decisions allowing child-murder, queer "marriage," and 'limited' porn (whatever that might be) because...........because.......James Madison said so?

Regardless of that silliness, Vermeule's concern is more properly addressed to churches of the Christian persuasion.  The American Catholic church's flaccid objection to queer "marriage," her See-No/Hear-No/Speak-No position on abortion, her ridiculous non-position vis-a-vis foreign invasion (and her assistance of same), not to mention her apparent decision to forget all about subsidiarity and the place of the Church in welfare-related decisions..........Hello!!!???  All that for tax preference?  Wales, anyone????

Perhaps the Baptists, Lutherans, Episcopalians, and Lutherans are just as absent.  If so, their 'leadership' also needs a reminder of what patriotism really means.

Sad that it has to come to this, no?