Since the GOP hopeful have taken on the goals and edicts of the Catholic Church as their "social cause dejour" -- perhaps they should study up on some of the other "social causes" that have been outlined, by that authority.
That is, if the GOP hopeful don't want to be forever typecasted as "À la carte Enforcers" of Church Doctrines ... of only those topics they find pruriently interesting.
c. Work, the right to participate
281. The relationship between labour and capital also finds expression when workers participate in ownership, management and profits. This is an all-too-often overlooked requirement and it should be given greater consideration. “On the basis of his work each person is fully entitled to consider himself a part-owner of the great workbench where he is working with everyone else. [...]
b.
The right to fair remuneration and income distribution
302. Remuneration is the most important means for achieving justice in work relationships.[659] The “just wage is the legitimate fruit of work”.[660] [...]
They commit grave injustice who refuse to pay a just wage or who do not give it in due time and in proportion to the work done (cf. Lv 19:13; Dt 24:14-15; Jas 5:4). A salary is the instrument that permits the labourer to gain access to the goods of the earth. “Remuneration for labour is to be such that man may be furnished the means to cultivate worthily his own material, social, cultural, and spiritual life and that of his dependents, in view of the function and productiveness of each one, the conditions of the factory or workshop, and the common good”.[661] The simple agreement between employee and employer with regard to the amount of pay to be received is not sufficient for the agreed-upon salary to qualify as a “just wage”, because a just wage “must not be below the level of subsistence”[662] of the worker: natural justice precedes and is above the freedom of the contract. [...]
d.
Women and the right to work
295. The feminine genius is needed in all expressions in the life of society, therefore the presence of women in the workplace must also be guaranteed. The first indispensable step in this direction is the concrete possibility of access to professional formation. The recognition and defence of women's rights in the context of work generally depend on the organization of work, which must take into account the dignity and vocation of women, whose “true advancement ... requires that labour should be structured in such a way that women do not have to pay for their advancement by abandoning what is specific to them”.[636] This issue is the measure of the quality of society and its effective defence of women's right to work. [...]
a. The environment, a collective good
466. Care for the environment represents a challenge for all of humanity. It is a matter of a common and universal duty, that of respecting a common good,[979] destined for all, by preventing anyone from using “with impunity the different categories of beings, whether living or inanimate — animals, plants, the natural elements — simply as one wishes, according to one's own economic needs”.[980] [...]
467. Responsibility for the environment, the common heritage of mankind, extends not only to present needs but also to those of the future. “We have inherited from past generations, and we have benefited from the work of our contemporaries: for this reason we have obligations towards all, and we cannot refuse to interest ourselves in those who will come after us, to enlarge the human family”.[984] This is a responsibility that present generations have towards those of the future,[985] a responsibility that also concerns individual States and the international community.
III.
The Failure of Peace: War
497. The Magisterium condemns “the savagery of war” [1032] and asks that war be considered in a new way.[1033] In fact, “it is hardly possible to imagine that in an atomic era, war could be used as an instrument of justice”.[1034] War is a “scourge” [1035] and is never an appropriate way to resolve problems that arise between nations, “it has never been and it will never be”,[1036] because it creates new and still more complicated conflicts.[1037] When it erupts, war becomes an “unnecessary massacre”,[1038] an “adventure without return”[1039] that compromises humanity's present and threatens its future. “Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war”.[1040] The damage caused by an armed conflict is not only material but also moral.[1041] In the end, war is “the failure of all true humanism”,[1042] “it is always a defeat for humanity”: [1043] [...]
e.
Disarmament
508. The Church's social teaching proposes the goal of “general, balanced and controlled disarmament”.[1067] The enormous increase in arms represents a grave threat to stability and peace. The principle of sufficiency, by virtue of which each State may possess only the means necessary for its legitimate defence, must be applied both by States that buy arms and by those that produce and furnish them.[1068] Any excessive stockpiling or indiscriminate trading in arms cannot be morally justified. [...]
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
Pope John Paul II
Funny thing, "birth control" is not mentioned once, as something relevant to achieving Social Justice and World Peace, in that Compendium ... go figure.
Perhaps the GOP hopeful have their work cut out for them ... you know maybe they should focus on the real social work that needs to be done -- that could actually make the world a better place -- for those "future generations" the Church instructs them to care about.
It's their "moral obligation", according to the Church. Why do they get "pickers and choosers" when it comes to the goals of universal social justice, and then remain the "absolute enforcers" when it comes to the sex-lives of others?
Perhaps the GOP needs a hobby? Perhaps they should actually learn how to love other people, and accept them as they are -- instead of constantly trying to make people fit into their "very small" selective version of Morality?
Perhaps, they really need to broaden their moral horizons, like the Church expects them to. That or shut the hell up and let wiser more tolerant people take over the mission of actual Governing and building that "better world" for "future generations".
Anyone with a "fair and balance" outlook should see that Church Doctrine concerns itself with the entire human family -- its current well being and its future potential -- and NOT just the GOP's unique insular conception of society and religious freedom.