Not saying that the issue is irrelevant. I'm saying that the issue will be a moot point when the country is under Sharia Law.
Are you really trying to make the argument that good economic policy is a better defense against encroaching islam than Christian Orthodoxy?
Your comment about being "embarrassed" reminds me of an incident in my early life.
When my wife was in college, we worked on a conservative newspaper in the Dartmouth Review tradition. There were all manner of conservatives on staff with the paper and one was even an atheist.
Once, we had a staff lunch at a restaurant and before we began to eat, many of us began to say "grace." The atheist did everything he could to interrupt us short of telling us to stop praying. We completed the prayer, and proceed with lunch.
My point is I have no doubt the atheist was genuinely embarrassed by our prayer before the meal. What he didn't seem to recognize was his own "over the top" behavior in trying to interrupt such an innocuous act.
I submit you may well suffer from the same myopia.