You can't find a higher authority than that. No one uses the trappings of religion as cleverly as Bill Clinton. Most pols and other charlatans who find religious belief, and religious believers, inconvenient merely try to ignore the heartfelt convictions of the true believers. David Smith, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, the largest homosexual-rights lobby, puts the White House poop in straight language. The problem is when those beliefs start infringing on public policy.
Religion is OK, as long as no one takes that stuff seriously.
That's how Bill Clinton deals with it. You could ask Father McCurry.