Mario Cuomo Rides Again

Perhaps inspired by Dean Rudenstine's "keep faith out of the law schools" lecture, Mario Cuomo has jumped into the stem cell debate with his "keep faith out of the law" solution.  It's a fairly simple plan:

the president should start by following the successful pattern established in other areas of dealing with the clash of religious and political questions, including the law concerning abortion. The right of true believers to live by their own religious beliefs will be guaranteed: no one will be compelled to use stem cell research or its products, just as no one will ever be compelled to have an abortion.

It's nice to be reassured that the abortion laws have been such a success.  More broadly, it seems that these culture wars will soon be a thing of the past if we can simply trot the esteemed Governor out as new moral quandaries arise.  See, e.g., Cuomo on cloning ("True believers will never be compelled to be cloned."); Cuomo on euthanasia ("True believers will never be compelled to end someone's life."). 

Finally, a blueprint we can all get behind!

Rob