Perhaps you could give us an example of someone from the Christian right attempting to make Jefferson a Christian. Everyone knows that he was a deist not a Christian. Neither was he an agnostic or an atheist or a libertarian or anti WOD or a democrat.
The purpose of pointing out Jefferson's benevolent attitude toward Christianity is precisely because he is considered the least favorable of all the founders. If he is the least favorable, and he respected Christianity, the modern attempt to make him a secular libertarian is the real problem-- not the straw man which you assembled.
I'm a conservative but not a member of the religious right. Jefferson was a Christian--a Unitarian. Liberals, trying to strip Christianity from our history, are the ones who push the idea he was a deist. Don't want to repeat myself so check above. Lots to search on if you doubt me.
About a year before Daniel Webster--another Unitarian--successfully argued that the Unitarian church in Massachusetts should continue to rely on state taxes for funding, Jefferson expressed the wish that all Americans would become Unitarians.
See DPB101's post #84.
I'm glad we agree he was a Deist (they capitalized it).