Was this an attempt to illustrate "important issues" rather than promoting iconoclasm, or an attempt to say that wedge issues are what drives modern government and thus we shouldn't be paying attention to the man behind the curtain, but discussing the preselected moral issue dujour to keep us distracted and shoulders to the grindwheel rather than looking at the bigger picture?
The latter doesn't much look worth of downvoting to me, in fact I'd go almost so far as to say it's amongst the most vexing problems of humanity at the moment.
Yes, my point (such as it was) is that wedge issues distract from the real "supra-partisan" issues that affect citizens across party lines, like the immunity of bankers from prosecution, how much of a drain military expenditures are on the economy (and therefor quality of life) in the US, the TSA, US foreign policy as a stifle on travel opportunities, and so on.
Oh, but let's talk about some religious people laying a turd of morality on the front page of every newspaper. Birth-control in church insurance? Such a pressing issue!
The latter doesn't much look worth of downvoting to me, in fact I'd go almost so far as to say it's amongst the most vexing problems of humanity at the moment.