I suspect I wasn't clear enough - it happens! I agree there's nothing wrong with an individual compaigning for whatever cause they like. I can also agree with a party campaigning to represent a specific religious point of view: if they get elected they reflect the will of the people and all that. The problem is that under the US system and also the UK since we voted to reject Alternative Voting (boo hiss, but that's another story) you only really have a choice of 2 or perhaps 3 parties that are an amalgam of lots of views. And its having a strong religious bias at that level that's the problem for me.