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Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Priests
Sin
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The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Function
Should
Social
Sustained
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The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
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Past
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We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Traditional
Traditional Values
Values
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I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Adults
Noses
Poke
Thinking
Adult
Consenting
Sexual
Nose
Relations
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No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Conscience
Differences
Law
Moral
Onto
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The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Children
Males
Order
Protection
Allow
Male
Exists
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One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Debate
Democratic
Democratic Society
Hierarchy
Inspiration
Needs
Continuous
Subject
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That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Children
Facts
Giving
Legislation
Advantages
Graduate
Towards
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For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Christian
Communism
Driving Force
Fall
Recovery
Roots
Taken
Account
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The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Atheism
Atheist
Stubborn
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The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Advancing
Totalitarianism
Obligatory
Soft
Wants
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John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Doubt
Favour
Frustration
Hate
Mass
Peaceful
Above
Accumulate
Contain
John
Paul
Region
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I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Giving
Mistake
Mistaken
Principal
Thinking
Life Society My Life
Liberal
Maintain
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Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Believe
Centre
Fundamentals
Relativism
Rights
Confronted
Damages
Fundamental
Human Being
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I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Catholic
Catholic Church
Homosexuality
Support
Thinking
Homosexuals
Morally Wrong
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On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Benefits
Children
Country
Investment
Thinking
Traditional
Traditional Family
Fundamental
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If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.
Rocco Buttiglione / Italian Politician
Choices
Investment
Poverty
Spotlight
Benefit
Helps
No-One
Search
Sustain
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