The point is the ongoing fragmentation of conservatism. It's not enough to be a socon, ie, social conservative. Now we have the newly-coined MORAL conservatives. It's looking like the fragmented splinter groups in Monty Python's Life of Brian, which I assume a MORAL conservative would have refused to watch.
Oh jeepers, gcruse, I gather you mean we have to be vigilent against the emergence of the boogy-man hiding under the bed!
Yet if MORAL is what makes a free, prosperous, and peaceful civil society, then what, exactly, is wrong with MORAL?
Not that I in the least imagine that the American civil order is in any way, shape, or form a CHURCH. I leave that construct to the Wahabbis (Islamofascist jihadists).
The point is you cannot deny -- assuming you've read the Declaration of Independence -- that the American civil order -- our very Constitution -- is established on the basis of the specifically Christian view of man, and of the Creator God who endues him with his inanlienable rights. And that all men are "created equal" precisely because each is equally the child of God. That is ineffably a MORAL insight.
FWIW. Thank you for writing!