Regarding: "You might say he approaches religious affiliation with the same commitment to personal autonomy that he brings to the study of economics, with similar peripatetic results."
- This article makes a good case that how one is now is premised on the peregrinations in ones own life.
- Seems that Sirico went from what would be imputed as liberal points of views (support of gay community and free flowing of the Holy Spirit - Pentacostalism -- to a point of view that exceeds liberality to become conservatism -- freely conserve that which preserves my own desires. 
- By way of a thought experiment: Consider that his own life is premised on a tax structure that enables him to promulgate his views, as well as on just employment and commerce laws that prevent oppression from becoming the crux of his own demise. What consequences would occur to him if the infrastructure and laws were not in place.