St. Jimmy the Carter essentially trolls liberals on gay marriage

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JaneyVee (8,559 posts)

WTF?! Jimmy Carter flip-flops on marriage equality.
Former President Jimmy Carter no longer believes that marriage equality should be legal nationwide.

Carter, who announced his support for marriage equality in 2012, told a Texas news station in an interview broadcast Sunday that he believes the issue should be left up to individual states.

“I’m kind of inclined to let the states decide individually. As you see, more and more states are deciding on gay marriage every year. If Texas doesn’t want to have gay marriage, then I think that’s a right for Texas people to decide,” Carter said.

Carter added that he opposes having the government “tell a church to marry people if the church doesn’t want to.” Civil marriage equality does no such thing.

“I don’t think that the government ought to ever have the right to tell a church to marry people if the church doesn’t want to,” Carter said. “I’m a Baptist, and the congregation of our church will decide whether we have a man or a woman as pastor, and whether we’ll marry gay people or not.”

The rest: http://www.salon.com/2014/10/27/jimmy_carter_flip_flops_on_nationwide_marriage_equality/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

I hope he isn't compromising his principles just because his son is running for governor in a red state.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025723282


Who knows? Maybe someone sat him down and explained what gay actually means. Should be good for a few laughs, anyway. As the libs are fond of saying, heads will explode. Except theirs, not ours.

JoePhilly (21,119 posts)
1. Sounds like it.

The law has nothing to do with his baptist church.

He has to know that.


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TwilightGardener (43,666 posts)

2. Yeah, well, he also thinks we should have ground troops...in SYRIA...to fight ISIS.

Syria, where we're hostile to the government and just about everyone else there EXCEPT the Kurds and some of the Free Syria Army.

Suck on it, DUmmies.

[Big Dog]

There will be much butthurt in the DUmp over that.

[obumazombie]

I just learned that Jimmy Carter did not finish USN nuke school. The last bit of respect I had for his intelligence was lost there.

[Ralph Wiggum]

There will be much butthurt in the DUmp over that.

They're used to it by now.  Hopefully there is a rash (pun intended) of butt-hurt over there next week.  More entertainment for us.

[Dori]

They're used to it by now.  Hopefully there is a rash (pun intended) of butt-hurt over there next week.  More entertainment for us.

8 more days.  Should be an entertaining evening. 


But I'm not holding my breath.