Posted on 03/27/2014 6:00:29 AM PDT by marshmallow
Former President Jimmy Carter isn’t exactly known for withholding his opinion, so it wasn’t surprising on Wednesday to hear him say he typed out and mailed a letter to Pope Francis challenging the pontiff on the status of women in the Catholic Church.
“He promised me he thought women should have a greater role,” the 39th U.S. president told an audience during an appearance at The Washington Post. Carter was promoting his new book “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power.”
Answering questions from journalists David Ignatius and Sally Quinn, Carter talked about the intersection of religion and gender in a wide range of contexts, including prostitution, scripture and abortion.
He also offered an unexpected example of an instance when he does not share his view: When his offspring sleep with people to whom they aren’t married.
Ignatius noted the traditional upbringing Carter had, and quoted the book as saying the former president and his wife were virgins when they married. Would you still want to marry as a virgin, he asked Carter, if you married today?
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Jimmy....The Pope’s business is none of your business.
Jimmah Cahtah belives he is the pope.
Whoever said “God don’t make no junk” never met Jimmy Carter.
Or Nancy Pelosi. Or Soetoro. Or a Democrat.
Perhaps Jimmy has a particular abomination in mind that has improved his own church for the betterment of humanity? I dunno.
This failed president and peripatetic busybody cannot keep his hands off someone else’s business.
Carter escapes being rated the worst US president only because Obama now holds this title.
Disappear Jimmy.
There is very good evidence that Jimmy Carter had a psychotic episode during his Presidency. It flared about the time he made his famous withdrawal to “consult” with a parade of characters that were brought to his Camp David retreat. It culminated in his famous “malaise” speech. The man simply is not stable.
Most Americans have been aware of this since the late 1970s.
Carter: “ . . . the very top religious crime against women are abortions that happen because the fetus is female. He said that amounts to tens of millions of “girls missing because they were murdered.” “
He said this in the article because he felt it had religious elements that drive the anti-female abortion selection he speaks of. What a nitwit - on so many levels.
Does he realize it is largely faith-based resistance to abortion in the first place?
Does he grasp that it is women killing women in his example?
Does he care that it is his party that worships the slaughter of innocents?
Because killing a baby of either sex is still killing babies, does he feel that killing a male baby is less a crime?
I could go on and on about this apostate fool but I have real work to do.
Have a great day and be glad that you weren’t born Jimmy Carter.
I was brought up a Southern Baptist and think that Jimmy needs to mind his own damn business. Leave the Catholic church alone. I’d like to see him go to the Middle East and try the same thing on Islamic leaders. Of course that will never happen. This guy is an embarrassment and is trying to take back the title as worst President ever. I also wonder why scumbags like him seem to live forever.
In 1978 Carter strong armed the Mormons and made them accept black men in to their religion..(but not black women)
Maybe he’ll go back and make the Mormons add the black women..and the white ones also..
That’s if theres any left..
the Morg is bleeding members at an alarming rate..
Bingo. I am certain Carter is not a Catholic.
I don’t send snotty letters to the Archbishop of Canterbury telling him what to do.
For a president who rode into the white house on christian credentials it seems odd that he can never avoid any opportunity to trash any form of christianity. Maybe he should criticize christians for believing liars too easily
And Jesus choses 12 MEN as his apostles.
Carter needs to stop bashing men.
“”He promised me he thought women should have a greater role,””
How does SHOULD develop into a PROMISE? Did he mean “WOULD” have a greater role and just doesn’t know the difference?
What an embarrassment....What did we ever do to deserve being constantly embarrassed by current/former democrat presidents?
Should Carter Be Jailed?
March 27, 2014
On March 22, NPR flagged this comment by Jimmy Carter:
“The fact that the Catholic Church, for instance, prohibits women from serving as priests or even deacons gives a kind of a permission to male people all over the world, that well, if God thinks that women are inferior, I’ll treat them as inferiors. If she is my wife, I can abuse her with impunity, or if I’m an employer, I can pay female employees less salary.”
Carter said practically the same thing on Charlie Rose on March 24 (it was reaired last night), and on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on March 24.
Bill Donohue commented today on Carter’s accusation:
So many women have been beaten, gang raped, tortured, and murdered in Islamic nations—it is a daily occurrence in the Sudan—that it would take the most advanced computers to run a tally. Moreover, there is no penalty for doing so. The barbaric practice of female genital mutilation—nowhere sanctioned by Catholicism—has been visited on hundreds of millions of Muslim women. Why is this so? Because the Catholic Church doesn’t ordain women.
Carter’s scorecard on women appointees, it turns out, stinks to high heaven. When he became president, he appointed 13 cabinet officers; three were women. He appointed 18 women to cabinet and cabinet level positions; his predecessor, Gerald Ford, who was in office for only two-and-a-half years, appointed 22 women. Of the 5 members of Carter’s White House staff, one was a woman. He appointed 259 judges to the federal bench, and 15.8 percent were women.
So according to Carter’s logic, if the Catholic Church is responsible for women being abused across the globe because it doesn’t ordain women, then he is a co-conspirator in these crimes. Which raises the question: Why is Jimmy Carter walking around a free man?
From Bill Donahue
Mr. President, there are many areas where the Church can increase the role and influence of women, in a very real way, that don’t necessarily involve them taking vows, let alone ordaining them. You’re a smart man (not like everybody says, like, dumb). Figure it out.
“Because killing a baby of either sex is still killing babies, does he feel that killing a male baby is less a crime?”
Bingo. Carter’s used of the example of female babies being killed because they are female - as an example of injustice. This is a purely political statement with no common sense to it. What on earth is he implying? He does sound a bit like Obama and Holder - who see everything through group-think. So, for instance, the deaths of lots and lots of female babies is abhorrent, but the deaths of some baby boys through abortions is not so bad at all. This is idiotic thinking and sounds a bit schizophrenic.
Abortions kill babies who are God’s creation. They have souls.
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