What he really meant was that what conservatism needs to do is disenfranchise the role of religion from its platform. It needs to yank all the social planks away and rip them up. Then and only then will conservatism be palatable to people like him.
The truth? When conservatism embraces religious "neutrality" it will be dead, dead, dead.
The role of religion is our adherence to God which of course Silverman can not stomach.
Atheists need to develop religious “neutrality”. In my experience these people are generally militant D-bags who go after the safe religions but wont say a word against religions that will cut their head off with a rusty spoon.