I can see both sides of this. On the one hand, one's personal beliefs should be that - personal and not subject to scrutiny in an work context unless they affect the ability to do the job. And he voted along "liberal lines" with regard to any social issues. That said, liberal values are, I think, inherently at odds with some Christian values and teaching. People talk about "the illiberalism within liberalism", but surely it has to be so, otherwise it disappears up its own arse in a vortex of contradiction? Fully agree he is a very decent bloke though.