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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