Conservative father? [Spirituality & Religion]

I just want to start off with saying that I respect my father very much. He has been married to my mother for 41 years and shows her love and respect and he has strong morals and values. With that being said though, he is very religious, in which there is nothing wrong with that, but he pushes his beliefs on to me. For example, I grew up Catholic and he told a few times, if I don't get married in a church someday, he won't come to my wedding, so I if I chose to get married on a beach he wouldn't attend. The thing is, religion is important to me, but it's important to me because I want it to be, not because of my father's opinion. I even had a discussion with him a while ago saying, people have the right to choose what religion they want to be and feel what is right for them and his response was, you were raised Catholic, so you should remain that way. Is this what a conservative father is? Again I respect him very much, so please no rude comments.

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When I was seven, both my parents became born again christians, in fact very strict catholics. Their whole style of parenting changed dramatically, and physical punishments started, I was forced to attend church and sunday school and I objected and became very angry with them. Then they sent me off to a christian boarding school until I was 14 and basically it destroyed my relationship with them. I think we both have conservative fathers and if thats what they want to be it's fine, but they can't complain when they are old if their actions have cost them a close relationship with their kids. They are supposed to be adults.