“I don’t know who this is, but I take it that her conservative values don’t extend to her personal life.”
You can be basically conservative without being rigorously religious - religion is too often used to look down one’s pious nose at others - who have been just as forgiven and saved as the nose-lookers.
Conservatism is a very big tent. Its a truly complex phenomenon, on the whole a series of reactions to liberalism or chaos, a series of chaotic conditions arising at various times and places.
We should have a good talk about what conservatism is, because in FR the terms is slung about a lot, without much attempt at analysis.
If she repents.