It is a trickier question though when members of a religion then try to legislate their beliefs into law. Many Catholics are active in movements which aim to pressure legislators to overturn court decisions which legalised abortion and also to introduce laws which would make abortion illegal in all circumstances, and the Church has also threatened to excommunicate Catholic politicians who support abortion legislation. Since the civil law is binding on all citizens in democratic countries, regardless of religious affiliation or belief, this then introduces a tough problem in Catholic moral or religious beliefs being legislated into law and then made binding, including on non-Catholics. A number of good arguments have been made that this endangers the separation of state and church, though it should be noted conservative Protestants and Orthodox also have much the same positions on moral issues.
In terms of ethical virtue, it is very important we consider virtue and the Good very carefully and not neglect the Good for airy-headed relativism and simple indulgence in dissolute pleasure. But at the same time we need to keep our guard up against any attempt to make democracy theocracy, however well-intentioned the beliefs of religious people may be in wanting to reform society and its evils.
