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...York Governor Mario Cuomo distorts and oversimplifies the American Lutheran Church's position as supporting legalized abortion [NATION, Sept. 24]. Actually, the church's 1980 statement on abortion "affirms that human life from conception, created in the image of God, is always sacred" and "deplores the absence of any legal protection for human life from the time of conception until birth." The American Lutheran Church acknowledges that there may be circumstances when "an induced abortion may be a tragic option." But it notes "the alarming increase of induced abortions since the 1973 Supreme Court decision and views this...
...European tour he will promote foreign-language editions of his novels. The State University of New York at Albany, where Kennedy holds a professorship, sponsored a weekend of cultural events in his honor. In addition, one of the writer's best-known fans, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, signed a bill granting $100,000 a year to support a series of writing workshops and lectures that Kennedy started at SUNY with a $15,000 grant. "You become successful, and the first thing you turn into is a patron of the arts," he was told by Saul Bellow, who once...
...values and American values," Strauss says, "Mondale doesn't have to take a back seat to anyone. But he doesn't handle the tear in the eye anywhere near as well. It's like everything else. It depends on how you do it." New York Governor Mario Cuomo showed in his keynote speech to the convention that the Democrats can convey an uplifting vision of America: his notion is nation as family, in contrast to every-man-for-himself G.O.P. individualism...
During the emotional week, two Catholics who are Democratic officeholders, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, sought to cool passions with a well-reasoned defense of their own-and by implication, Ferraro's-refusal to seek laws that would impose Catholic moral positions on all of U.S. society. Cuomo, more restrained than in his stirring Democratic Convention keynote speech but just as articulate, drew a standing ovation from an overflow crowd at the University of Notre Dame after a 53-minute discourse in which he asked a pointed question of his fellow Catholics...
...source of the current church-state battle. Archbishop John J. O'Connor of New York tested his side of the frontier when he declared, "I don't see how a Catholic in good conscience can vote for a candidate who explicitly supports abortion." At which point Governor Mario Cuomo of New York, a Catholic, took the unusual and politically courageous step of challenging the Archbishop. (Last week Cuomo followed up with a thoughtful meditation, delivered at Notre Dame, on the tension between religious and public morality...