Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Three vs. William F. Buckley Jr.”
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Three vs. William F. Buckley Jr.”
Taped on July 21, 1978In this installment of the semiannual turning of the tables, the guests question their host on everything from government spending to the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion to aid to authoritarian regimes. Two samples: Pilpel: “I think what we can agree on in disputes of this kind is that the role of the government, in a culturally diverse, pluralistic society, is to be neutral.” Buckley: “My God! You want to pass a law [ERA] forbidding me to hire a female nurse for my mother, and you’re telling me the law has to be neutral in matters of such gravity as abortion!” . . . Burden: “But if life is sacred, if that is a basic moral premise, then how can you in any case justify taking life [via the death penalty]?” Buckley: “By reading the Bible.” Burden: “An eye for an eye? You subscribe to that?” Buckley: “No, I don’t subscribe to that. But there are many instances in the Bible where, given due process, and given the gravity of the crime, the taking of life is authori
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