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Pretty much. The idea that secular people, or even non-Christians religious folk, can have power in the US gov is anathema to a lot of religious conservatives. They also do not grock that secular thought is not just an 'atheist religion'.

No they aren't, no matter how much you and other religious people want to layer your world views/thought process onto others. This is why the religious right is absolutely useless for anything other than preaching to the choir, because they cannot accept that secularism isn't an 'atheist...

That's because many of them don't look outside their bubbles, and more than a few have found very comfy homes/jobs in groups that will allow them to go after organized religion. Very few leftists think of their ideology as a religion, and frankly calling it such may be a nice rhetorical jab...

I mean you're not wrong, but what happened with the Mormons is an example of the sectarian splits and conflicts between different religions that were very much an issue the Founders were worried about when the drafted the Constitution. You don't seem to get that those rich and powerful leftists...

Have you considered they learned that hate from people who were abused or mistreated by religious folks/institutions? The backlash against openly religious folks in gov is happening as backlash against how the situation used to be inversed.

The only reason 'atheists' have attempt to push openly, preachy religious folks out of politics is because those same preachy types used to do everything they could to keep the 'wrong' religions/sects out of power and treated non-religious folks like crap a lot of the time. And things like...

Because to a certain brand of American conservative, 'conservatism' is about preserving/pushing Christian morality via the government, and anything else needs to be in service to those ends, regardless of political realities, changes in demographics, and the legal considerations of other...