Read the party's official platform sometime, or maybe just a few tweets from the president.
- A simplified tax code along with tax cuts with the goal of growing the market.
- Fairer trade agreements that put American workers first.
- Ease the process of home ownership.
- Investment in transportation and electric infrastructure.
- Investment in, and promoting education in STEM.
- Fostering growth in start-ups and small business.
- Right to gun ownership.
- Right to free speech.
- Right to privacy.
- Right to life.
- Congressional term limits.
I don't agree with a lot of it but it seems they're far from monsters. They're pretty up front about what they believe and why.
- Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society and has for millennia been entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values. We condemn the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Windsor, which wrongly removed the ability of Congress to define marriage policy in federal law
The implication here being that letting gay people get married is going to erode our foundation as a free society and obliterate all of our values as a culture. There are plenty of other callouts in that document to homophobic non-sense.
http://www.hrc.org/blog/republican-national-convention-2016-...
Furthermore, the bigotry and discrimination in the GOP platform is well supported by the actual conduct of republican lawmakers in the house and senate.
An individual's right to hold their own opinions on these matters - regardless of how much I might agree with them - is one matter, but it's intellectually dishonest to pretend nothing objectionable is a part of the modern GOP platform. I say this as someone who voted GOP in the past.