Ideology I: Why I am not a conservative

In the first of a 4 part series on ideology, I would like to explain why I am not a conservative.
I am using the term 'conservative' in the American sense; i.e., a general acceptence of the free market, but a certain moral code (usually Christian) to be enforced in social settings.
American conservatives believe that the free market is the best/most efficient/fairest way to deal with the economic problem. They think that people should be given freedom to do as they please in the sphere of business, but they wish for their beliefs on morality to be the standard in law. This is surely contradictary. Why should we grant freedoms when we are acting with our cash, but not grant them when we are acting with our conscience? For a start, this creates an obvious problem - what if a business wants to set up a strip club, but the conservative government has deemed that immoral? If they allow the strip club, they have broken the bond to morality. If they do not allow the strip club, they have broken the bond to the free market. But it's more than that.
Isn't the entire issue with morality a personal one; many people have different moral standards and the concept involved with morality is that a moral decision is one made personally, not one made for you? If we take the example of drunkeness, and look at two different situations this is exemplified. Let's assume that getting drunk is immoral.
-Drunkenness is legal. A man goes out and gets drunk
-Drunkenness is illegal. A man desperately wants to go out and get drunk, but is unable to because he will incur the wrath of the law
Is the first situation a genuinely more moral result than the second? Morality is clearly in the conscience of the individual. Enforcing morality achieves nothing in so far as it is the heart rather than the actions that dictates whether the occurance is a moral one.
Secondly, surely the freedom of the individual to choose his own moral code is better than us imposing a single moral code upon the entire population. Why is it that Person X's moral standards should be forced on the country, and not Person Y's? Because Person X's standards are 'correct'? Nearly impossible to prove. It is the right of the individual to decide what the morally permissable decision is; not the role of the state.