Maybe I'm a Rino

So I've been worried for some time that I may no longer be a Republican. I know I'm for a limited role for government and I'm for fiscal responsibility. I'm certainly against slavery (as well as other forms of discrimination) and favor keeping the union together. I think on the whole a free market and property rights are good things, though anything can be carried to excess. And, unless the Constitution's changed I believe the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right.

However, it appears that in order to be a Republican these days you have to be strongly, violently against two things: abortion and legal recognition of marriages between people of the same sex. The current political campaigns in advance of the primaries has brought this to the fore. Our candidates for Senate make a big point of how pro-forcing-women-to-risk-their-lives-to-have-that-baby-hey-that's-what-happens-when-you-have-sex they are and how weak their opponents are on that same topic. Even county officials have this as a point on their campaign literature - though how that topic is likely to come up in the job of Judge Executive is beyond me.

Unfortunately, there's no other party I can believe in so far either.