So as far as this man is concerned the fiscal conservative wing of the Republican party is of no concern. And, if you happen to believe that government should push NO ONE's religious/ideological agenda then you are not a true conservative. Oh, and if you are also an atheist you cannot be a conservative. This is the same kind of person that say's there are no atheist in foxholes.
Here's a peek at a tiny bit of what's going on with the cultural struggle in the USA.
"Then it will be plain that the first condition for the
liberation of the wife is to bring the whole female sex
back into public industry, and that this in turn demands
the abolition of the monogamous family as the economic
unit of society" (Frederick Engels, "Origins of the Family,
Private Property, and the State").
Many feminists carried Mao's Little Red Book in the late 1960s
and early 1970s. Some of those feminists have attended Republican
meetings in every locale ever since. Socialism, you see, seeks
to push its policies in its gradualist manner within its
opposition.
Mao's Little Red Book on Women
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Documents/Mao-31-Women.html
Some of Lenin's words on women
http://www.marx.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm
...only one various plans against traditional morality in the overall effort to eventually overwhelm fiscal conservatism.
Most singles vote Democrat. Most marrieds vote Republican. Recent Republican mistakes (such as voting in favor of Democrat feminist social bills during the 1990s) do need to be corrected.
As for Atheism, what you believe in regarding religion is up to you, of course. But some of the social wisdoms of thousands of years shouldn't be dumped for everyone simply because it feels good to indulge, IMO.