I suppose i am a pretty traditional Catholic in that i got to church on Sunday, observe Holy Days and what not..i do not agree with everything in the church though, but the way i practice my beliefs is traditionalist, but the beliefs i hold are a bit liberal leaning, but not all.
I have issues though with people who say that you should not take your beliefs into politics and then try to implement them through law. If you hide your beliefs to get elected to a position of power and then try to force them into law then i believe that is wrong, but if you openly state your beliefs and are elected then i think its ok (no i do not believe its ok if an extremist is elected who then wants to kill these people for disagreeing with these beliefs etc).
I for instance, i believe abortion to be wrong (sorry i am not trying to turn this into a debate about abortion, it was the first thing that came to mind and it is a conservative belief i suppose i still hold to). If i was elected to a position where i could decide whether it is banned or not, i would hold a vote on it, if voted in favour it would be set in law, if against then it would not, but at least i would have held true to my values and beliefs by trying to change it. If you get voted for and do not follow what you believe, you are already a hypocrite, so how can you be trusted to keep the promises to your electorate if you can not hold true to yourself.
Liberals have beliefs which they wish to be imposed as such on to society as much as conservative Christians have beliefs they wish to impose as such.
Conservative Christians would be against contraception, i am not, but the liberal position of allowing contraception is a belief as much as the conservative christrian one, so a person who is voted in on their pro-contraception stance in a government is asking them to make that view heard in the hope of it being made law. Imposing beliefs un-democratically is wrong... i think that is what i am trying to say