C'mon Sledge, it is abundantly apparent to me this is so contrived. "Vote for Scott Brown.....the Republican party is the party of God...." 
I know you live in Oz (or close by) and the culture there is far more secular (I didn't say hedonistic....) so maybe you think all religious conservatives are like this in the U.S. but they're not.
Well they reckon Tassie is part of australia but I live in hope we can succeed (the south shall rise again).
I suppose you could say we are a secular country although in the last census 67% claim christianity as their religion around 18% claim to have no religion a further 11% did not answer the question and the rest of the percentage group is mainly maid up of islamic and budhists both growing in size rapidly.
Our govt (federal) can not interfere with a religion nor can it create a church. Interestingly this doesnt not apply to state govts.
To answer your question, I do not think that all religious conservatives are like this in the states, my comment about republicans was said in jest (no sarcasm smiley, blame marshall'ette :-) )
I take people as I find them, if I dont like they way they behave or live I choose not to be apart of it, and I hope vice versa.