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You have to be busy, ignorant, or apathetic to not know about the division that exists currently in the world over the issues in social justice. There is no other excuse.
The fact is, once you get past the three excuses I listed, everyone cares.
The issues - guns, sex, abortion, marriage, you name it - are share by all. Each and every one of us has an opinion and a personal ambition associated with ensuring our current perspective ends up being the one that sticks. Why? Because there is something else we share: the need to do things right, to be correct, and to do what is good. The Bible recalls a time where "everyone did as they saw fit" (Judges 12:25), but this seems to apply especially to our time, if not all time. See, each person wants good to happen; it is built into us. A predominant philosophical and theological point is the goodness of man, that as creatures created in God's image, though we are marred by sin, we have the capacity and the desire for good. Only problem is, we each seem to come forth with a different version of this "good."
The people on one side of the fence desire the right to marry whom they wish, while the others demand a standard to be in place. One group of people believe every woman must have the right to abort their own child if they will it while the other demands a different standard. One maintains prayer should be allowed in schools, religious statues, crosses, and apparel should be able to be worn at will, while the other finds it offensive. Both want the world as they see fit.
The one fact standing between all of this is: one is right and the other is not; there is no such thing as universal relativity. If my truth says yours is a lie, what then? Its a contradiction.
Either way, my point was, there are two sides to an issue, "is it right or is it wrong?"
Regardless, the intention of both is to better the world and both believe that their perspective is in the end, the one that will do the most good. It is an honorable intention, is it not? To add to this, the issues being debated today are issues that are ingrained in every one of us. They aren't mayonnaise versus miracle whip, they are life and death is most cases, sexuality in others, and all have moral attributes in high measure. If one is wrong about their sexual orientation what is that to say about that person? If one learns that they were wrong in their opinion on abortion then there are serious consequences to deal with. Nobody is left out.
Other than this I have no other point. Consider the willfulness of others to do good in your differences with them. Do stand up and defend the Church, but do not be inconsiderate for the fallenness of man and our ability to stray from the path when we have no lamp to guide us. It does no good to be just as forceful without consideration of your opposition. Make an effort to understand their argument. You can try to untie a knot in the dark, or you can study the knot in the light.
As for me, I submit to the teachings of the Holy Catholic Church with its Bishops in communion with the Holy See. For more on that, feel free to dialogue
