Given how racism and bigotry seems to be hard baked into the culture of that so-called "conservative" party of theirs, having religion mixed into the aforementioned anti-Christian anti-10 Commandments behavior of theirs is truly making a mockery of the religion they profess to live their lives by. It seems being a fascist racist Christian is not a conflict of beliefs in some parts of the country, yet this is the actual cloistered culture that gets passed down to the children in parts of that state, thus perpetuating this myth of white superiority above all others. Some folks need to cling to that ages old contrived fairy tale out of fear of the unknown, the unfamiliar and the changes that are inescapably occurring around the world and that's partly due to those folks isolating themselves for the false sense of security it brings. The more things change around them the more they want to hide from it all.
This is where the defensive barrier of "traditions" rears its ugly head in opposition to change that can be essential for the survival of our nation. It seems that conservative values are inextricably joined at the hip with having an anachronistic state of mind, where many values and traditions of the past are incompatibly insoluble with the present, therefore the whole nation needs to be dragged back and kept in the distant past to satisfy and allay the fears of these "traditionalist isolationists" who demand and engineer their desires into law, especially now with a conservative supermajority in the SCOTUS that are favorable to such beliefs of which they will gladly legislate from the bench into the laws of the land.