At bottom politics answer the question, “how shall we live” thus are about morality. There is no such thing as a “neutral” body of knowledge distinct from morality, that notion is a Marxist Frankfurt School invention crafted to replace this nation’s Judeo-Christian moral law and thinking with socialistic thinking and inverted morality (political correctness) disguised as “politics.”
Americans have been propagandized so effectively that they themselves serve as gate-keepers (censors), as you are trying to do when you say, “But this was a political article, and therefore the discussion about this article in a political vein.”
Read: Cultural Marxism
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html
Your premise is totally wrong. Politics does NOT answer the question “how shall we live.” It only answers the question of “how shalt government say we shall live.” Two totally different concepts. I pity those who cannot tell the difference.
You comments about the neutral body of knowledge actually work in favor of my argument, not those who I was responding to.