There are always a few dissenters in government for all issues to give the appearance that something might eventually change. You want those dissenters to line up with the ideologically compatible constituent party and in this case you wouldn't want them lined up with the people who've had "judeochristian" banged into their heads for 80 years you'd want them lined up with the people who have been taught to believe brown people are always right and light skinned people are always wrong for the past 60