Regarding: "Against those in the church who think the natural moral law is the only viable form of societal moral analysis (even though those same people usually do not employ the natural moral law as the grounds for shared discourse so much as they use it as a bludgeon to beat people over the head), ..."
- Imagine the delight of Trump's team were this found in a Wikileaks.
- Imagine how Archbishop Charles of Philadelphia would wax 'elephantly' on behalf of the 'Church' (read - hierarchy that are in agreement with the pure catholic church crowd) were he to  continue developing the growing thesis that the best US government is a roman church chancery government.