“I believe Jesus would approve of gay marriage,” Carter said this week in an interview with HuffPost Live.
And he believes Jesus would approve abortion in the cases of rape and incest.
Carter told interviewer Marc Lamont Hill, “I never have run across any really serious conflicts between my political obligations and my religious faith.”
When Hill asked if Jesus Christ would support redefining marriage, Carter replied, “I believe Jesus would. I don’t have any verse in Scripture.”
“I believe Jesus would approve gay marriage, but that’s just my own personal belief,” the 39th president said.
“I think Jesus would encourage any sort of love affair that was honest and sincere, and was not damaging to anyone else,” he added. “And I don’t think that gay marriage damages anyone else.”
Whether through the Bible, the Quran or the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Carter entreats his fellow citizens to draw on “these visions of improved human interrelationships...to meet the challenges of the present moment.”
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2018/04/11/faith-jimmy-carter
Not sure the faith of Jimmy Carter is particularly Christian.
His own mouth convicts him. You can rest assured that it isn’t.
Carter is flawed in many ways. And that includes in his practice of Christianity. But he seems sincere. So in this regard he’s OK with me.
And what Christian is not flawed? I’d much rather see Carter get this award than some Islamist, or some Communist.