[Lorianne]

You don’t have to support abortion or gay marriage.
Focus on fiscal issues doesn’t mean you don’t have those other values. It’s not either/or.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Anti-gay marriage referendums have passed in many states with healthy margins...it is a proven winner politically.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘Focus on fiscal issues doesn’t mean you don’t have those other values. It’s not either/or.’

That nay be your position, but the author disagrees: ‘You must discard - intentionally - all “wedge issues” as points of debate, discussion, or campaigning. You know what these issues are - they fall broadly into the category of religion in one form or another.’