Thats not however the sentiment of the author of the article. The author suggests that the religious right should be supplanted by the secular right.
I didn't read that in the article. Here's what the article says.
The right needs to have a long, open, honest debate about the role of religion. We need it now more than ever because we are in the middle of a war with an enemy that is defined by his religious fervor and by his attempt to make his religion dominate the "public square," to borrow a catchphrase from the religious right. If we don't understand the real nature and value of Western, Enlightenment secularism, then we can't fully understand what is at stake in this clash of civilizations, and in the long run, we won't know how to win it.It seems to me the author thinks the conservative coalition needs to decide what the role of religion should be within the coalition. There are many religions. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Christian sects. And there are conservative deists, theists, agnostics, and atheists. They all disagree to some degree, some more rather than less, on religious questions and issues. The question I think the author is asking and suggesting should be debated, is if any one, or group, of these should dominate the policies of the conservative coalition.