I Know The Dumb Nigger Vote (It's All I Get Credit For)

I think the answer to the following question is because we, as godless types, are not (usually) as frivolous towards facts as the larger culture. But, I'm aware, there might be other reasons, too:

"The Last Taboo

It’s harder in America to come out as an atheist politician than a gay one. Why?"

Whatever the answer, I also think it's ultimately a product of the dishonesty ingrained in NewAge culture:

As I repeatedly saw (and tried to show) during Mitt Romney's run for the presidency, atheists are ignorantly, too-easily, and wrongly persecuted as "bigots" for merely pointing out a fact - religious and "spiritual" believers act on their beliefs - while gay issues (just like the feminist issue of abortion) are almost exclusively regulated to being argued against the dictates and merits of religious belief, like no other outlook or argument exists, or ever has or will.

NewAgers were using Jesus to, both, condemn and find safety.

These unethical proponents are found to be more-than-willing to blow smoke up our asses - to get the results they want - at truth's expense. Which is fitting, considering.

I guess, if you really want to understand the hypocrisy inherent in such positions, you should maybe ask somebody popular in the conservative blogosphere, like Glenn Reynolds or Ann Althouse, why they behaved the way they did back then:

They're supposed to be the educators,...