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Some [Firing Line] encounters stand out in my memory. . . . [For example,] there was John Spong, the Episcopal bishop of Newark, New Jersey. Spong was touting his book touting sexual license, and I suggested that this was not a message that the physically and morally devasted inner-city of Newark really needed to hear. Spong triumphantly, and smugly, countered that the Episcopalians of Newark did not live in the run-down city but in affluent suburbs, and they welcomed his message of liberation from the onerous sexual morality of the Episcopal Church. For a moment Bill [Buckley] and I were, most uncharacteristically, at a loss for words.\u201d\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
–Richard John Neuhaus, \u201cWilliam F. Buckley Jr. and the possibilities of life\u201d\u009d (\u201cThe Public Square\u201d\u009d), First Things<\/b> 183 [May 2008], pp. 65-66<\/p>\n
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Some [Firing Line] encounters stand out in my memory. . . . [For example,] there was John Spong, the Episcopal bishop of Newark, New Jersey. Spong was touting his book touting sexual license, and I suggested that this was not…<\/span><\/p>\n