A well reasoned response. Although I note it does seem to make one big assumption: the continued existence of the State. Perhaps an assumption that can be reasonably held for now. I suppose it's all relative to one's time horizon: five years or 25?
However, If the accelerating downward trajectory of our moral decline is any indications these existential-type questions will require answers sooner rather than later.
That is, unless one is of the belief that we will survive as a state without a moral center.
I think it is unseemly for Chaput to put forth such a melodramatic proposal, when he can’t do what he is OBLIGED to do with respect to pro-abortion/pro-gay-marriage politicians: Refuse them Communion.
I emphasize that I am not saying denying them Communion would be a good idea. I’m saying that giving them Communion is a MORTAL SIN. Which is exactly what Cardinal Burke PROVED to be the case in his famous article: http://tinyurl.com/canon915
Burke mailed a copy of this article to every bishop in the United States. Only about a dozen of them are NOT committing the mortal sin of giving Communion to pro-abortion politicians.