Jim Fear makes some excellent points.
Nobody who doesn't really care about your pet issue is going to think it's anything but you preaching, and that isn't what they came to sword & sorcery for. They came here to watch good guys bash bad guys (or at least reasonably okay guys bash bad guys), airship pirates conducting daring raids, wizards of vast and deadly power hurl spells, monstrous creatures eating people, underwater kingdoms threatened by ancient evil, unthinkably valuable artifacts stolen by intrepid thieves, and on and on the list goes of things you could be doing rather than putting people to sleep with your boring message fiction that seems to be trying to take up the majority of fantasy literature these days.
I've said something similar in the past; if your story is more focused on "the message" than "the plot," then you are preaching instead of telling a story. And the only people who don't mind being preached at are the already converted--to whom preaching is a total waste of time anyway.
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