Why Moral Issues Eclipse All Others

Okay, I’ve been thinking about whether or not same sex marriage, abortion, pornography, and all the other prevalent-but-not-so-big-a-deal-anymore moral sins ought to or ought not to be higher priority issues than poverty, environment, education, etc., or whether in fact they are just part of the overall “family issues” list along with the rest. Here are the thoughts I have on the subject:
If you mess with pro-creation, what kind of respect are you going to have, really, for the rest of Creation? Idolatry and Adultery (in the broadest sense of sexual sin) are both infidelity, ultimately to God. Unfaithful to what we have been given and to Who gave it, to the greatest stewardships possible: our physical creation. Throwing back in His face that he took on mortality and “corruptibleness” for us, in turn to lay it down, in turn to pick up, in all our behalf, immortality and incorruption.
Can a world that wholeheartedly espouses immorality (adultery, infidelity) in fact produce any kind of financial, environmental, educational well-being? No. Everything else is in jeopardy unless the fundamental building block of virtue, morality, is in place. Environment, health, education become smoke screens to mask where the attention needs to go first and foremost in order for all those other things to be assured. “If we make enough noise about those things," the thinking becomes, "we won’t have to pay attention to the still, small voice that keeps droning the same thing: honor, virtue, integrity.” The prince of this world, who never had and never will have a body, wants to distract the brothers and sisters from whom he is eternally estranged by encouraging them to get involved in secondary causes first, so that the covenants they must make to return, live with, and be like their Father never quite come to pass.I think the Brethren’s stand is in concert with this outlook. That’s why, as an issue, moral rectitude eclipses all others, because it strikes at the very heart of Heavenly Father’s Plan: that he sent his children here to gain a body, to attain unto perfection through the only means possible, by means of the Atonement: in families.
So, yes. Morality first. In my mind, that ought always to be the basis on which I make political and all other choices, because nothing else is really possible without it.