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Jimmy Carter: Religion Causes Unequal Pay Between Sexes
Newsmax ^ | Monday, 24 Mar 2014 10:03 PM | Jason Devaney

Posted on 03/25/2014 2:18:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Former President Jimmy Carter says the Bible is to blame for women’s making less money than men in the workplace. […]

“That is really derived, I would say, indirectly from the fact that religious leaders say that women are inferior in the eyes of God, which is a false interpretation of the Holy Scriptures.” […]

“It is disturbing to realize that women are treated most equally in some countries that are atheistic or where governments are strictly separated from religion,” he said. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; antichristian; baptists; incomeequality; jimmycarter; liberalagenda; neverheardofislam; romancatholicism
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To: Olog-hai

“It is disturbing to realize that women are treated most equally in some countries that are atheistic:
Like Cuba and North Korea where everyone starves.


21 posted on 03/25/2014 5:24:12 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Olog-hai

Could this demented old Lefty get any more pathetic?


22 posted on 03/25/2014 5:26:49 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan

Jimmah’s brother Billy is looking more & more like an unheralded genius.


23 posted on 03/25/2014 5:46:20 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: norwaypinesavage

http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/BL-REB-20421

Wrong


24 posted on 03/25/2014 5:55:11 AM PDT by sakic
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To: DaxtonBrown

‘zackly.
Socialists share poverty...


25 posted on 03/25/2014 5:56:41 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Olog-hai

Weird how leftists keep using the word “religion” when they really mean “Christianity”.


26 posted on 03/25/2014 5:58:40 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: G Larry

I’ll take

“Consequences of bloated government and high taxes” for $500,

Larry.


27 posted on 03/25/2014 6:00:17 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: sakic
Your article proves my point: "economists cite a number of reasons why pay differences persist. Among them is time, with women on average working fewer hours than men.....The pay comparison also fails to capture intangibles such as health-care benefits as well as some women’s choices to forgo salary in favor of fulfilling work and more flexible schedules."

It also doesn't include the two points I made: it doesn't factor in education, particularly the fact that even for the college educated, some degrees pay more than others. Neither does it factor in years of experience in paying jobs.

When all of these are considered, the pay gap disappears.

28 posted on 03/25/2014 6:38:14 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (for)
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To: Olog-hai
religious leaders say that women are inferior in the eyes of God

I've never heard a religious leader say that.

29 posted on 03/25/2014 7:20:58 AM PDT by Nea Wood (When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.-Sowell)
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To: norwaypinesavage

It should also be noted that men do almost all of the most dangerous work, much of which is higher paying than less-exciting lines of employment. As a result, they are injured and die on the job at much higher rates.

I’d also like to know why it isn’t automatically classified as discrimination that men are arrested, charged, convicted and sent to jail at much higher rates than females. Disproportionate impact and all that.


30 posted on 03/25/2014 7:23:22 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Olog-hai

Liberals are very strange people.

Women have throughout history been generally treated darn poorly, including little more than 100 years ago being routinely cremated alive along with their deceased hubby.

Females in the western world today are the most privileged females in the history of the world, yet the quite minor disparities still existing between the sexes are taken as automatic indictments of the injustice of Western Civ and particularly of Christianity.


31 posted on 03/25/2014 7:26:47 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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