“The Goshen County Republicans are on the wrong side of history,” he said. “I wonder, when they issue a statement like that and sign their names to it, what their grandkids and great-grandkids are going to think of this.”

Artery recently married his partner. He will be on his husband’s health insurance policy, freeing up $300 a month that they will spend in Wyoming.

“It’s anti-business, and it’s anti-live-and-let live,” he said about the letter.

While traditional families may be one conservative value, it competes against another, said Gregory T. Angelo, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, the largest GOP organization representing conservative gays and their allies.

“If you are a fiscal conservative, continuing a stringent opposition to civil marriage equality in the wake of these bans getting struck down, one after another, is in many respects doing a disservice to the taxpayers of the state,” he said.

“Especially when you consider that continued appeals against court decisions overturning same-sex marriage bans have only resulted in higher courts affirming those bans are unconstitutional.”