"Republicans" have sold out.

The "moral" issues of abortion and homosexuality which have now become political issues are not really the issue at all. This is just a smokescreen for the power struggles going on between two parties promoting extending the strength of the Federal government. Both parties "Republicans" and "Democrats" are trying to use the power of the Federal government to enforce their own particular version of Morality onto people. The Republican Party as it is today has completely and utterly sold out the old Republican ideals to seek after power. Both ruling for the banning of abortion or the banning of homosexuality, or the banning of stem cell research all pre-suppose a strengthening of Government. In this way, the selling out of the party has become abundantly clear as the very people (Republicans) who were supposed to be against the strengthening of the political power of the Federal Government are now pushing it using these "moral issues" to try and force one groups morality upon another.

The very political issues that are causing so much tension in the States right now between differing ideologies were predicted by the real Republicans (the Jeffersonians) centuries ago.

Read this excerpt from a Republican posted in the New-York Journal of October 25, 1787 called "Cato" (George Clinton) and tell me if his point has not been unequivocally demonstrated to be correct by the current political climate.

But whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, together with the variety of its climates, productions, and commerce, the difference of extent, and number of inhabitants in all; the dissimilitude of interest, morals, and politics, in almost every one, will receive it as an intuitive truth, that a consolidated republican form of government therein, can never form a perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to you and your posterity, for to these objects it must be directed. This unkindred legislature therefore, composed of interests opposite and dissimilar in their nature, will in its exercise, emphatically be like a house divided against itself.

Now while we understand Cato to be arguing against the adoption of the current Constitution, the more important issue here is the sovereignty of the states. He and the other Anti-Federalists like Jefferson and Madison did not feel the need to repudiate it once adopted, only to amend it. This is of course where our Bill of Rights comes from, and specifically to this issue, the Tenth Amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Due to the political games of the "Republicans" and the "Democrats," the people are throwing all their power into the hands of a Federal government that can only become oppressive. If this continues, there will inevitably be a 'winning' and a 'losing' side wherein a massive body of people will be coerced into following a morality which they cannot or will not support.