Folks, the Czar will explain two things here: first, that (Kirk) Cameron represents a very small percentage of conservatives—mostly centered in the South—who reject the reality of Evolution, and frankly, a whole bunch of other things. It is possible to be conservative and evangelical—it is also possible to be conservative and not evangelical, which seems create a Does Not Compute klaxon in liberal brains.
You want to see a mental disconnect watch someone talk to my wife. The plethora of Tibetan knick-knacks, the non-standard animals, the religious angle ... and they dive into politics and their heads go all explodey from detonating preconceptions.