No, neocons are people who think the US should proactively attack countries that may threaten our political position as superpower at some point in the future. They've in recent decades made a political alliance with the morality police, or Christian Right, Moral Majority, theocons, what have you, but they are a distinct group. And that alliance has started to falter recently when the neocons showed that they couldn't give two figs for the theocons' pet issues.
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Conservatives do not endorse any government action to defend morality and the traditional family structure simply because we believe it isn't governments place to decide morality for us.
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That's probably akin to distancing oneself from the nuttier members of your faction. A theocon isn't a "real" conservative; Fallwell isn't a "real" Christian; PETA aren't "real" environmentalists, etc.
At the moment, the conservative branch of the morality police is primary, just because the conservatives have been in power. Liberal morality police - censors, PC, etc - will be regaining traction soon. I'm just happy that the theocon and PC factions fight each other, and wish that conservative and liberal censors would too.