Will a Low Voltage Atheist

Conservative newspaper columnist and TV personality George Will tells an interviewer for The Daily Caller that he's an atheist. According to their story, this is what Will said:

I’m an amiable, low voltage atheist. I deeply respect religions and religious people. The great religions reflect something constant and noble in the human character, defensible and admirable yearnings. I am just not persuaded. That’s all.

Is the conservative tent big enough to accomodate admitted non-believers in spokesperson roles? Sadly, I expect several papers in the South will drop his syndicated Washington Post column.