And why can't the GOP go back to focusing on the economy and leave all this moral stuff to people's individual consciences?

Exactly!! Not that Republican/Conservative lawmakers apparently ever do this, BUT if they ever sat down and made a prioritized list of crucial issues in this country (you know - the kind that actually need legislation), I just don't understand how something like this idiocy would outrank... almost anything else. This kind of shit makes me insane!