It takes nothing less than a revolution in thought to produce politicians and pundits who think that these issues of life and marriage are not really “political” issues, that they are somehow exotic or distant from the main, legitimate issues of politics. And what could they possibly think forms, instead, the proper issues of politics: questions utterly detached from arguments about the things that are truly right or wrong, just or unjust?
But that sense of things brings us back, as ever, to Aristotle and the recognition that the political order is marked by the presence of law, and law can spring only from the nature of that creature who can give reasons over matters of right or wrong.
(source: Handwringing Over “Polarization” – The Catholic Thing)