I’m sorry, thecabal, but your anecdote is a red herring.
Our country and constitutional form of government is based on a moral foundation. Without this moral foundation, you have a relativistic society. And a relativist society cannot function without anarchy.
True. America cannot sustain a Republic without a moral people. But you don’t get a moral people by mandating morality, that is putting the cart before the horse. You get a sustainable FREE REPUBLIC when the people deserve it. What we have now is what we deserve. If we as a people will educate ourselves, care once again about our glorious history, and prostrate ourselves before God, then we will naturally begin to reacquire the foundations of our great Country. The Founders didn’t install a “morals clause” in the Constitution to keep us moral, they knew that such a mandate would have been ignored like all the rest if we so chose.