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I Think It Is Important That Religious Leaders Of All Kinds Consciously Attempt To Distinguish Between Issues Of Natural Law On Which There Is Consensus Among Catholic, Protestant, And Jew And Those Issues On Which There Must Be A Greater Degree Of Tolerance Of Other Peoples' Opinions And Of The Diversity That Is Characteristic Of American Society.

Taxes Are The Flip Side Of Expenditures. The Same Issues Apply On Both Sides. There Are Questions Of Fairness And Justice As Much In The Way You Take Money Away As In The Way You Disburse It.

City Parks Serve, Day In And Day Out, As The Primary Green Spaces For The Majority Of Americans.

I Think There Has Been An Unfortunate Tendency For A Lot Of Different Groups To Forget That Distinction Between Natural Law And Revealed Truth And To Say: Our Complete Agenda Is To Be Enacted Into Laws Governing The Entire Society. Many Different Religious Groups Claim That Authority, Not Only Catholics. A Lot Of Different Protestant Groups As Well Are Stepping Forward To Say: Here Is Our Agenda, It Is A Moral Agenda, Ergo It Must Be Enacted Into Law. I Think That The Distinction Between Natural Law And More Ultimate Kinds Of Doctrine Is Being Lost.

I Have No Question That The Roman Catholic Church Teaches That Abortion In Virtually All Circumstances Is Wrong. I Think The Church's Position At All Times In Modern History Has Been That It Is Unequivocally Opposed To Abortion.but That's Not The Question For A Catholic Who Is A Public Official. I Happen To Subscribe To The Church's Position As A Person. Still The Question, As Governor Mario Cuomo Suggested, Is: What Is Your Obligation As A Civic Leader? I Agree Entirely With John F. Kennedy. I Answer Only To My Conscience In My Public Life And That's That.