text: Yep, and unity will demand that the Church change its approach to doctrinal consistency when science gives them their comeuppance.
  
  On the side of reality, the United States is not a natural law republic.  It is based on the deistic concept of natural rights, which is vastly different.  Attributing natural law (with its papal authority component) to the founders is ahistoric because most of them considered the Pope anti-Christ.