An interesting post. Thanks for your thoughts and feelings.
It seems rather disingenuous though to single out conservative Christians for being hypocrites. Are Christians the only hypocrites in the world? Are Christians the biggest? Hypocrisy seems to be everywhere. If people want to be good people, which I believe they do, then the vast majority of the world's population -- who do not claim Christianity -- are hypocrites. But again, singling out Christianity for its hypocrisy doesn't make Christianity unique amidst a world full of people who say one thing and do another.
It seems to me that conservatism, rather than Christianity, is what people are really frustrated by in this thread. The questions I've asked, have been answered so far in political terms, not religious ones -- gay rights, gender equality issues, death penalty, hypocrisy, etc. No one seems to be addressing the Christian side of the thread, so it seems weird for this thread to be about "Conservative Christianity," when it seems that people are primarily expressing views on conservatism and politics.
Perhaps a better title for the thread would be Conservative Christians, since that seems to be what we're talking about here -- the interpretation of Christianity by conservative, politically-active groups. It would, after all, be a shame to define a religion by its interpretation by a particular group of people. (Again, no one on this board seems to tar and feather Islam because of the interpretations of the Quran by terrorists.)