“All the particularistic cultural communities that comprise particular liberal democracies stand under a ... civic obligation. Each such community must identify within its own cultural traditions resources that encourage its members to cultivate capacities for civic freedom and civic justice. Communities without such a commitment will effectively exclude their members from participation in liberal democratic political life. Every such community that refuses or fails in this commitment will with all certainty contribute to the failure of the institutions of liberty bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment.”

The closing paragraph of an essay God and the Space of Civic Discourse to be found at this forward-thinking liberal website - well worth a browse.

“Christian family values are being replaced by the state’s moral values, which are designed to create autonomous individuals. The authority of the parents is not being recognized. As is typical, the parents are declared to be incompetent to raise their children.”

Richard Guenther, an American ex-patriate living in Germany, defending Baptist home-schoolers from persection by the German state.

“Faith schools act as the antidote for State promoted secular humanism and multi-culturalism and undermine the State’s interests in increasing multi-racial miscegenation as a solution to the innate flaws in the multi-cultural social model. The State thinks it can breed us and our identities into oblivion before the social crisis occurs. This is the fundamental flaw in the states nightmare vision - people do not want to give up their identity and as long as a few brave souls keep alive the memory of who they are and where they come from then the system will fall. Cultural amnesia and erasing of the social and historical record of the past can only work on the minority not the majority.”

Lee Barnes, writing in the BNP’s online magazine, Brimstone.