You apparently missed the memo outlining the principal tenets of "new conservatism."
1. Government bureaucrats and public school teachers are at best incompetent, at worst actively evil, in all things other than determining the will of God (for which they are uniquely well qualified).
2. Hence, the power of government bureaucrats and public school teachers must be strictly limited to the implementation and teaching of Biblical Christianity.
Those advocating such powers for government somehow always assume that theirs will be the preferred doctrine. It never occurs to them that when the Inquisition comes, they might be the rackee, and not the rackor.