text: You're exactly right.  Your point illustrates why persons of faith, although they obviously can bring their faith and values with them as they participate in civic and public life, cannot expect or claim any sort of deference or pride of place for their values or ideas in the public square. I think many -- probably most -- of the ideas embraced at the "Value Voters Summit" are repugnant.  That does not mean that so-called "Value Voters" have no right to advocate for them; of course they do.  But it does mean that they have no right to expect deference because they invoke their faith or religion when they advocate in the public square.