"My personal preference is a church that can respect diversity," he said, in a telephone interview from Albuquerque.

An observant Jew, he says his parents and religious studies placed a heavy emphasis on respecting diversity.

If we must have such prayers before Congress, they should respect religious diversity.

In Europe, they agreed to build institutions which respected the differences and diversity but allowed people to work their common ground together.

The EU has a common cultural heritage and respects cultural diversity.

It also means that we must respect regional, cultural and linguistic diversity.

We respect difference and diversity, but we cannot give up principles which we consider to be fundamental.

That is the only way to avoid another type of uniformity, which would not respect the specificity and diversity of our European culture.

But perhaps if we fight really hard, we may eventually get it to respect diversity of opinion.