Robert George to Become Important Force On the Right?

This is great news in many ways. A GREAT GREAT article in the New York Times. I am going to interact with this article on this post more after lunch.

Of course while the article focuses on the "right" as to politics this could have effects on the left too. More later.

Update-
A few thoughts. Overall a good article for the most part. I am sure Damon Linker's head over at the New Republic is exploding.

One shortcoming with the article is I don''t think it explores what a whole up hill struggle getting conservatives or even conservative Catholics to explore natural law. The conservative Catholic Justices on the Court seem to even snort at it. Scalia thinks it is all unworkable in a practical sense. Many Catholic bloggers I link think it is even unworkable in the entire scheme of Law and such.

The ct that Evangelicals are taking a interest in this is very very important. There is tension of course but the debate is healthy and robust in those quarters as we saw at the wonder Making Men Moral Conference earlier this year.

A few complaints as to the article:
In the American culture wars, George wants to redraw the lines. It is the liberals, he argues, who are slaves to a faith-based "secularist orthodoxy" of "feminism, multiculturalism, gay liberationism and lifestyle liberalism." Conservatives, in contrast, speak from the high ground of nonsectarian public reason. George is the leading voice for a group of Catholic scholars known as the new natural lawyers. He argues for the enforcement of a moral code as strictly traditional as that of a religious fundamentalist. What makes his natural law "new" is that it disavows dependence on divine revelation or biblical Scripture - or even history and anthropology. Instead, George rests his ethics on a foundation of "practical reason": "invoking no authority beyond the authority of reason itself," as he put it in one essay.

I am not sure what the writer is trying to imply as to the part I bolded. Natural Law Jurisprudence does not try to enact some theocratic state where bad choices are impossible because they have been all outlawed.