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I would definitely rather not know an author or publisher's politics, religion or other belief system.
Knowing and disagreeing can damage the way I approach a book. I'll always be suspicious that they're trying to push their objectionable views on me, even if they aren't. Knowing and agreeing doesn't make a book any better. It seems to me that the effect can only be neutral or negative, so I'd rather not know.
I didn't much enjoy Torgersen's Hugo stories this year, but I had previously kind of liked his Campbell nomination stories. Were these ones worse? Was I less well disposed towards the author? Were the politics more overt? I don't really know.
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