Mario Cuomo Quotes About Belief

• Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

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  New York (State). Governor (1983- : Cuomo), Mario Matthew Cuomo (1989). “Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984”

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• The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

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• I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us.

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  "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective". John A. O'Brien Lecture in the University of Notre Dame's Department of Theology, archives.nd.edu. September 13, 1984.

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• Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.

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  Mario Cuomo

  "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective". John A. O'Brien Lecture in the University of Notre Dame's Department of Theology, archives.nd.edu. September 13, 1984.

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• The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

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  "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective". Mario Cuomo's Speech at University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, archives.nd.edu. September 13, 1984.

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