Cardinal O'Brien, Scotland's most senior Catholic, in a sermon marking 40 years since the Abortion Act, also called on voters to reject candidates who defend a "social evil".
These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints.
Despite our desire to label the people with whom we disagree as unreasonable or evil, there are actually very few of these anti-social people with whom we daily work and play.