Posted on 02/20/2006 4:02:32 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
LAS VEGAS, February 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Jack Carter, 58, the eldest son of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has announced he is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate to represent Nevada. At his launch, Carter spoke with reporters revealing his schizophrenic stand on abortion - a stand similar to that of his father.
Speaking with the Associated Press' Kathleen Hennessey, Carter described his abortion views saying, ""I'm a personal freedoms person. I don't want the government to come in and tell my child or whoever it is that they can't have an abortion. I'm pro-choice as far as a woman choosing, but I'm against abortion."
Stephen F. Hayward, PhD., wrote a 2004 book on Jimmy Carter noting the former President's political exploitation of abortion. In an interview with National Review, Hayward recalled Carter's abortion stand: "The 1976 campaign was the first national election after the Roe decision, and the politics of the issue were still sorting themselves out. Remember that Gerald Ford was pro-abortion, while many Democrats, including Sargent Shriver, one of Carter's rivals, were pro-life. In the Iowa caucuses, which Carter put on the map for the first time, Carter told Catholic audiences (and a gathering of bishops) that he opposed abortion and supported legislation to restrict it, thus cutting into Shriver's support. But he told feminist groups at the same time that he supported abortion rights (indeed, he had done so as governor of Georgia)."
The AP report reveals Jack Carter is Baptist and has, together with his wife Elizabeth, four children from previous marriages.
In 2000, LifeSiteNews.com reported that President Carter left the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Carter said at the time that the SBC had adopted policies "that violate the basic premises of my Christian faith," including a denominational statement that prohibits women from being pastors and tells wives to be submissive to their husbands.
However, Morris H. Chapman, chairman of the SBC Executive Committee, noted that Carter, who was originally embraced by Baptist conservatives in 1976 when he publicly described himself as a born-again Christian, lost favour with conservative Christians after such actions as appointing Sarah Weddington - the lead attorney in the landmark 1973 abortion case, Roe v. Wade - to the White House position when he was assistant to the president.
IOW another progressive. PHUI
CLARITY! /s
Wow what a courageous stand. "I think someone should be able to choose to murder, but I hope they choose not to."
"I am against slavery, but I oppose freeing the slaves."
Wow what a courageous stand. "I think someone should be able to choose to murder, but I hope they choose not to."
This is Ted Kennedy's position, too. Like all pro-choicers, he's a freaking hypocrite. It's like saying you're personally opposed to slavery BUT...
In other words, I'm against killing babies, but if my daughter wanted to kill my grandchild, I'd say it's OK with me. And these libs actually think we believe they stand for something.
you beat me to the post!
So, he's "for" the positive sounding term, and "against" the negative sounding term?
What a great campaign platform. All For Positivity And Against Negativity! Goebbels would be proud ... it's almost as catchy as "I hate hate" and just as incoherent.
This guy is a nut just like his father.
Sounds just as undecided as his dad did when he was in office.
I voted for the war before I voted against the war.
Hahah... this has to be the most equivocal statement of the year!
"I'm pro-choice as far as a woman choosing, but I'm against abortion."
Translation: I'm a political, afraid to voice my personal convictions and a bonafide fence straddler. Hold on...which way's the wind blowing?
So he believes abortion is murder but women should be free to murder without big brother stepping in. Yeah that sounds very christian.
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