Word: religion
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...Religion enters the campaign...
...bishop's statement thus seems likely to intensify a budding controversy over the proper role of religion in the 1984 campaign. The issue cropped up early this year with Ronald Reagan's fervent advocacy of school prayer, and erupted more recently in New York with a tense exchange between Governor Mario Cuomo, a Catholic, and Archbishop John O'Connor. Democrat Cuomo accused O'Connor of implicitly advising Catholics to vote against him and other officeholders who accept the church's insistence that abortion is morally wrong but contend that as public officials they have...
That was also the stated purpose of Malone's pronouncement on behalf of the U.S. Catholic Conference. That body, said the bishop, believes "it would be regrettable if religion as such were injected into a political campaign." But, he asserted, the Catholic hierarchy has not just a right but a "need to join the public policy debate" by defining the moral principles that should guide political behavior, "with particular emphasis on abortion and nuclear war." On many other issues, Malone said, "there is room for sincere disagreement" on how moral guidelines should be applied to public policy...
TIME cites Ferraro's stand, of being personally against abortion but accepting pro-choice for others, as an act of bravery. In reality it is typical of those Catholics who put their political aspirations above their religion. How can we trust someone who denies her faith for ambition...
...backers of this bill probably thought they were voting to put religion back in the schools," he notes. "But I don't know if they knew they were voting to put in my peace workers." Says Federal District Judge Marvin Shoob, who last year ruled in favor of an A.C.L.U. challenge to religious meetings that were being held in a suburban Atlanta junior high school: "The bill will create more problems than it solves. I expect to see a rash of lawsuits...