Doesn't change the fact that their arguments (w/regards to religion, I dunno about the less partisan political ones) are BS and the whole plan of infiltrating the government in order to enforce their morality through the American law system is sinister.
And I generally don't respect spoken debate as much as focused, written argumentation. There's too much opportunity for sophistry.
Not to mention that I'm not as good at spoken debate as I am at written ones