Americans tend to become religious when it's convinent. It's like whenever you ask them, are you Christian? They say yeah I don't believe in God but in a higher power. I go to church though.
but as soon as we're questioning sexuality or if we're talking war or abortion, (God) is in everyones picture. Everyone is laughing watching a Baptist priest curing homosexuality, most people are not convinced when people say you'll go to heaven or performing an exorcism but when you ask if they believe ghosts are real 50% says yes while any atheist arguably would say its the same thing. If you ask do you think you're born gay they say no and I have a lot of gay friends.
I truly believe it's not accepted in the US at the same level as in North West and arguably South Europe, I also believe when you're scared of something you either accept it or you force yourself not to accept it. Ghosts are more convinent to believe in because you can't do anything about them while being gay by nature you can at least try to tell the guy to snap out of it, crazy world but that's how science and religion crash.
We are all here and most of us believe the science of steroids, workouts,space, chemistry, biology etc. Well science tells us homosexuality is normal and not just a (thing).. Just let that sink in a little. Now what about abortion? Legal and accepted in most countries wtih good science? Legal but highly questioned in the US. Now I don't have any real opinion on abortion because I don't feel I have enough understanding to decide what's right and wrong in this case. I like America, I lived there but its just different than North, west Europe, I mean 300 million people, that's like the whole Europe, theres gotta be a lot of different opinions there.
Bottom line, I think many americans are confused.