If you going to be a conservative be one with a big "C" not a small ones. Do not pick and choose the issues you like
In my world, being a Conservative, instead of a conservative, means not wanting the federal government to legislate my morality on others.
The gays want federal laws forcing their morality on everyone.
The anti-gays want federal laws forcing their morality on everyone.
I'll let God decide how people live their lives when their time here is up, not my government. As long as someone isn't committing crimes on individuals without their consent (rape), or without the cognitive skills to give consent (pedophilia and statutory rape), it's none of my business, other than to teach my kids how to become productive citizens when they leave our nest.
I think both sides are the same, other than their polar-opposite views on homosexuality, and they don't even know it.