I agree. National security has to come before any social issues, or there will be no country left in which to dicker over the social issues.
I'd rather have 60% of our agenda and goals advanced than 5% of our goals and agenda advanced. This relatively straightforward math seems to escape some of people.
Maybe they are railing against arithmetic at Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show.
Read your Bible. National security comes from social issues. A bad king lost the favor of God. I good king had the favor of God and could not be defeated.
Think back to The Viet Nam era and tell me we could not have won that war against a 3rd world mud hole. Then think of what was happening with free sex, homosexual rights, dope, abortion and all the rest. Our country was weak, because the people are weak.
We are weaker today. When you forget God, you pay. Simple plan from the beginning.