But the "own religious views" you ref to as those the Rabbi doesn't want foisted on him are just that ~~ **religious** views. You might claim a political slant to the attempted influence. They are trying to influence only those votes relating to contraception, which is denounced by the Church as SINFUL ~ a religious, not a political concept, I repeat. Politics, in some sense, play a part in all such controversial transactions: but these particular politics, I say again, are religion-based, predicated on definitions of certain conducts as 'sinful'. No-one can claim there are no politics involved, in this or any other human transactions; but the argument is religiously based, not, as you said, Jack [your very words - see above], 'totally political'.

~M~