Perhaps people believe supporting Constitutional Amendments to protect marriage and the unborn are only the positions of Christian extremists or zealots. Nope: the support of these amendments and also the appointment of judges that hold these values are included in the Republican party platform. I was having this discussion with a friend of mine yesterday and he said he can't believe that's the Rep. platform, so I emailed him the link to the pdf below.
http://www.gop.com/images/2004platform.pdf