Operation Rescue is one very special means of fighting legalized abortion and there are many means and, while I do not say that any particular priest is obliged to do what I did, I do think every priest is obliged to be very active in pro-life, very active in trying to bring about the end to abortion, because fundamentally you have to say that the priest's main job is to lead people to heaven. In abortion God is being mocked. The society is saying we do not care what God says. The priest, while he is a man of the people, is primarily a man of God. Men of the people are everybody.
Politicians are men of the people, and priests are men of the people.
But priests are different from all other types of leadership roles in a sense opposite politicians in that their primary goal is to be a man of God. The priest is God's portion, and He must in justice receive his portion. Either that has to be turned around or nothing we are able to do will be able to overcome that basic position. Oftentimes people in moral theology talk about the fundamental option. So what is the sense then of carrying on other functions of religion when the overall fundamental commitment has been made against God.