The claim that issues surrounding sexuality should take secondary priority behind concerns like justice, equality, or freedom reflects a distinction that unfortunately many modern Catholics increasingly make.
In truth, it is a false separation between sexual morality and justice.
The Catholic tradition has consistently rejected this division. John Paul II, for one, never treated chastity and justice as competing priorities. He taught instead that they arise from the same truth about the human person.
This was the core of his personalist vision — that each person is an individual created in the image and likeness of God, and that each person must be loved and never used as a pawn in some political game.
The crisis is therefore not merely political. It is anthropological. It concerns the meaning of the human person himself.
When sexuality is detached from truth, from procreation, from covenant, and from self-giving love, the effects do not remain private. They radiate outward into the culture. The consequences become visible everywhere.