Republican Family Values 4

The next subject will be about adoption and abortion. However, before I address this issue there is something that I have hinted at earlier that must be as clear as possible.The Republican Party is a political organization. The lower taxes, limited government, national defense, and pro-growth policies are fine. The Republican Party is different from the Democratic Party in that it also has social values stated and defined.
These, to clarify for all, are guidelines for Republicans in leadership to follow in order to be effective and responsible examples of leadership. When individuals follow it in the Republican Party as well they improve their communities and become local leaders as well. The best individual is also the best leader.
Some issues, such as same-sex marriage, abortion, and sex education have become issues where the Republican membership has forgotten Republican values in favor of personal and religious belief. This religious belief has no place in politics. It can have a place in one's personal life. However, using one's religion as a reason to decide an issue without considering the costs, benefits, and basic values of the Republican Party is wrong to do. The Republican Party is not, and will never be, a theocratic organization for Judeo-Christian thought. Leave that to the churches and synagogues.
The Republican Party can have a set of values it can promote for a better society for which the government can serve, because without a civilized society our government becomes a pillager for barbarians instead of a defender of freedom, promoter of freedom, and an example of responsible leadership. The nation has a majority of Christians. That influence is not forgotten or ignored. However the nation is not guided by the ten comandments. It is guided by the Constitution which lays out the rule of law, not faith, as the basis of our nation.
The Republican Party needs to change the ferocity with which the "religious right" intolerantly pushes away homosexuals, single mothers, young minds, and those with perhaps less fervent beliefs in faith than they do. The religious right needs to be informed of the benefit of proper government over the percieved government protection of their religious beliefs. As a political party that wishes to promote government ideas in a nation with laws as the foundation we need to make certain the laws, not the religions, control our policy.