Indeed. And yet the basic foundation for the Constitution, and that which enabled its effective implementation must also be considered. Small government with the freedoms the Constitution ensures presupposes a people, which are sufficiently controlled from within, so that they typically need not be controlled without. This is especially critical in a vast country rich with resources populated by people of diverse ethnicity.
And I submit it was the often hidden effect of the preaching of the evangelical gospel, from in the home to in the schools* to handing out gospel literature at Ellis Island to immigrants, which helped form America’s character for the better, and enabled both small government and great advances and every worthy field. the neglect of which is costing us much in souls lives and money.**
Homosexuality and atheism both militate against the authority of the Bible, and instead promotes an objectively baseless morality, in which every man does whatever seems reasonable to him, which the hacker which exposed military secrets did as well as men like Mao and Pol Pot.
*http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/CauseEffect.html
http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/Education_in_the_United_States
**http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html
Yup. The country was founded as a Judeo-Christian nation. The further we drift away from our roots, the more evil it becomes. Government has turned from defending our rights to destroying our rights. They’ll continue until the people have no choice but to exercise the remedies left for us by our Founders in the DOI.