Then I presume that you want Roe vs. Wade overturned above all else, as it is the most destructive example of Big Government intrusion ever.
After all, it is Big Government empowering one half of the human race (women) to kill the children of the other half of the human race (men).
I do want Roe V Wade over turned - for any number of reasons of morality and sanity and legality. But I don’t need Ricky Santorum trying to prove he’s “more socially conservative” than anyone else to know that.
That right there is the dirty little secret that puts paid to the "social conservatives just want to run peoples' lives" argument that is implicit in most "libertarianesque" arguments. Let's face it, abortion and gay marriage - which make up about 90% of what people mean when they talk about "social issues" - do not involve "running somebody else's life."
Fighting abortion involves keeping women from killing somebody else. That's it. Opposing abortion is really no more "social engineering" than is preventing somebody from pushing somebody else in front of a speeding bus.
Opposing gay marriage is simply seeking to prevent the government from extending special rights to one particular group on their basis of their particular preferences. And make no mistake - gay marriage is a special right. Homosexuals already have the *exact same* marital rights as straights. Any gay can marry a woman, and any lesbian can marry a man - just like straight men can marry a woman, and straight women can marry a man. The fact that they "prefer" members of the same sex is immaterial - there are also people who "prefer" horses, dead people, and 4 year old children - but that doesn't mean we should let them marry them.