Sorry Scott, but even Protestant historians disagree with your debunked premise.  Let's be clear.  Your position isn't that Constantine's policy regarding Christians (allowing them to worship, making Sunday a non-work day, making bishops available to the poor who could not afford legal representaion and all the rest), the underlying sentiment you are attempting to apply is that somehow Constantine distorted Christianity, founded the Catholic Church, and made it a political entity instead of the Christ-filled entity it originally was.  Did I miss anything?  Needless to say, all that is pure rubbish, proven by the existence of the Church, its hierarchy, and the work of the early fathers long before Constantine was born.  The revisionism lies solely on your shoulders, at least in this discussion.
Funny that you would mention the need to brush up on history since you so clearly need to do so.