2020: GOP and SSM

[MarkD]

The GOP is a party, not a person, so it does not take a position. Candidates take positions, and various Republicans will take various positions. Many Republicans will continue to oppose SSM and to argue that they wish no state had legalized it by any means. There will be Portman-esque Republicans who will agree that SSM should be legal, but that it should have been left to each respective state instead of being settled nationwide by the Supreme Court. And there will be Republicans who will be completely supportive of what the Supreme Court did. Then again, there will be some who will, as much as possible, avoid talking about SSM.

[MarkD]

MA GOP took ambiguous positions on abortion and SSM. I think it would be 4, but honestly I have no idea.

They did so on abortion? Oh gosh...

Even though I take the conservative positions on both, I HATE when abortion and gay marriage are grouped together as if there is some special connection between those two issues.

As much as you may hate it, it all comes from the same clauses in the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court connects the dots whatever way it wants to.
Look at interracial marriage, Loving v. Virginia, 1967, especially Section 2 of the Court's opinion. That was cited as one of the precedents that justified (to the members of the Roe Court itself)  interpreting the Due Process Clause as a protector of "fundamental rights" not enumerated in the Constitution in Roe v. Wade. And Roe was cited by the Court in justifying (to itself) the decision about "sodomy" in Lawrence v. Texas. Then the decision about "sodomy" was cited as justification for legalizing same-sex marriage in U.S. v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges.
I understand how frustrated you must feel, but this is the quality of reasoning we get from the Supreme Court Justices.

As for the question at hand, we will be probably nominally against it, but focus more on religious liberty than actively trying to overturn Obergefell.

"Religious liberty," to me, means the freedom to believe in any religion of your choice. Religious beliefs are about: whether there is a God, are ancient tomes like the Bible, the Koran, etc., the revealed word of God, how do I worship Him, did Jesus die for my sins, and so on. But the belief that homosexuality is immoral, and I am a baker who does not want to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple is not a religious belief, in my opinion. It's a moral belief. Morals are a set of beliefs about how people should behave while they're alive, while religion is a set of beliefs about what is going to happen to your "soul" after you die if you don't behave that way. They are simply not the same thing. If you want to fight for the "right" of bakers to not bake wedding cakes for gay couples, you're actually fighting for the "right" of the baker to believe they're morally superior to the gay couple.