Let's see how you framed that question again :

You ally yourself to racists and Islamophobes in the case of veils and to fossil fuel interests in the case of the position of mainstream churches.

i.e. you had already answered the question for me : making the extraordinary assumption that I would vote against my convictions in order to spite the church!

Have you ever asked yourself if you aren't just plain wrong?

... and now you're channeling Cromwell! (joke)

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Quite. There are still different motivations in every debate, religious and non-religious ones, and proposals may be essential for one group and unimportant but tolerable for the next. Or essential for one group, beyond the pale for another. This is why I focus on which underlying ethics and norms groups are driven by.