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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Jimmy Carter Repeats: Catholic Ban on Female Priests Leads to Discrimination

July 9, 2013 - By Fred Lucas
Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter repeatedly pushed his position that the Catholic Church's opposition to female priests is the cause of various forms of discrimination in interviews with Time magazine and Reuters in June, and in remarks at a conference in Atlanta that month.
Carter told Time, for instance, that the lack of female priests in the Catholic Church could directly influence an employer to pay women less than men.
“I think that what major religious leaders say is used by others who discriminate against women as justification for their human rights abuses,” Carter told Time magazine in a June 23 interview. “For instance, if an employer, who might be otherwise enlightened, if he is a religious person and he sees that, he might be a Catholic, and a Catholic does not let women be priests, then why should he pay his women employees an equal pay [as men]?.....To Read More...  
My Take - There is one thing you have to give Jimmy.  Consistency!  He's still dumb as dirt and has no intention of giving up the title of the nation's dumbest president.  How can a man that is trained in nuclear physics be this dumb?  It's easy.  The one is science and the other is ideology; and there is nothing like ideology to make smart people dumb. 
 

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