The Anglican leaders, like Buttiglione, claimed to be keeping
their moral standards in place: They issued a «strong condemnation of the use of any methods of conception control from motives of selfishness, luxury, or mere convenience,» and said «complete abstinence» should be the first option.
So, too, his view that
standards of truth will vary from one time and
place to another, as well as his denial that there are available to any rational agent
standards of truth sufficient to resolve fundamental
moral, scientific, and metaphysical disputes
in a definitive way.