[tjd1454]

A conservative political Party is to stand for freedom, not attempting to regulate moral behavior.

Wrong! You have just defined the libertarian party. Standing for moral issues has always been the backbone of the GOP, beginning with its original anti-slavery platform.

[fortheDeclaration]

The original Republican Party was against slavery because it want against the principles of the Declaration of Independence that all men were created equal.

That is defending a political right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, not morality.

And Lincoln was elected saying he would limit slavery's growth, not it's existence because he knew he had not constitutional ability to end slavery.