<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c43c92e0-e754-4e4a-b4a4-d5de162749b2/0EBCCFD6-966F-49A4-A030-04B38D28189A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.tothesource.org/10_28_2009/10_28_2009.htm" href="http://www.tothesource.org/10_28_2009/10_28_2009.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.tothesource.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tothesource.org/10_28_2009/10_28_2009.htm"><EM><STRONG>Baker:</STRONG> </EM>I think Christians should kindly refuse the invitation to take their religious activity and speech private.  They should maintain the validity of the faith for their approach to community life and politics.  They should point out that secularism provides little guidance for dealing with big political questions and that the values have to come from somewhere.  Too often, secularists selectively crib Christian values without acknowledging the source.  We didn't just get here by accident.  We don't appreciate things like liberty, equality, and democracy by sheer accident.  Christianity has been a major civilizational force.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0EBCCFD6-966F-49A4-A030-04B38D28189A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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