We are all advocates, trained to argue and make logical and reasoned statements upon legal issues. The distinction between legal and social issues is difficult to define. These matters are not simply defined as social and political problems. Lawyers are trained to lead debate. Lawyers are experienced in formulating the issues.
Lawyers are to protect the rights of the minority and advocate the positions of the majority.
It is important, if not mandatory, that lawyers be involved in the issues of our time. The American Bar Association and its House of Delegates can be wrong and perhaps they have been in the past. For me, the issue is not whether or not they are right or wrong, but whether or not they are addressing the issues of our time. We may not always win, but that is no reason not to try. I would imagine that many of the contemporaries of Thomas Jefferson told him to stay out of the political and social issue of separation from England.