One of the changes in the Conservative party of the last few years if the increasing personal liberalism that has occured. No-one gives a monkies anymore (well almost no-one - there probably are a few old guard around but not many) about an adults sexuality - see Iain Dale and Alan Duncan - but there is a strange antipathy towards atheists and humanists (for example this comment on ConHome :"The Conservative Party could only become anti-religious if it were to cease to be conservative."). Now the days of the Conservatives being the political wing of the C Of E are long gone but comments like that illustrate my point.
However - and if you pardon my comparison - the Conservative party is a broad church and I was glad to see that there a new society - The Conservative Humanist Association - which is for those right-leaning atheists like myself.
They have invited Richard Dawkins to speak at a fringe meeting at the Tory party conference (something I can't get to because it is inside the security cordon) but there will be another time.
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Antipathy is certainly the word.
The Conservative Humanists bode well for the future though - a secular presence will surely make the party more electable to swaths of people.
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