Many people, including the Pope, are saying that the church should devote more attention to social justice as opposed to to sexual ethics. First Things editor Matthew Schmitz, a Catholic, reminds us that sexual ethics are part of social justice.
From Matthew Schmitz, Social Justice and Sexual Ethics | Matthew Schmitz | First Things:
Pope Francis would have us worry about Christian teaching on sex only “when there is not injustice in this world.” I don’t suppose that will be any time soon. Whatever the timetable, he’s right to put Christian sexual teaching in the context of social problems. That’s one of the places where it’s always been properly located. Christ’s teaching on chastity and divorce transformed marriage so that men had obligations to their wives that pagan society never would have admitted. Paul’s opposition to sodomy broke up the pederastic exploitation of Greco-Roman society.