Not all Republicans want those things. I for one could care less if gay people want to get married. I do believe the traditional family is the best for children, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't let single moms raise their children or gay people have children of their own. Abortion is a little...
I just finished The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and now I'm starting Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis.
Both are great books, the former being about social epidemics and how they get started and the latter is about the revolutionary generation (Hamilton, GW, the Adams couple, Madison etc)...