JIMMY CARTER continues to be one of the world’s most outspoken feminists. Yesterday, he said the exploitation of women was “the most serious and all pervasive and damaging human rights abuse on Earth.”

Carter, who left the Southern Baptist Church after six decades because he rejected its position that women should be “subservient” to their husbands and not serve as ministers or deacons,  believes all organized religions mistreat women. Last year, he wrote:

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

Logically then, it is unfair that anyone in a church is not in a position of authority, even children. If equality is defined as occupying the same role as others, churches will not be egalitarian until each man, woman and child is a minister.

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D. from Seattle writes:

You said: “If equality is defined as occupying the same role as others, churches will not be egalitarian until each man, woman and child is a minister.” 

Taking this statement to its logical and absurd end, the world will not be egalitarian until each man, woman and child is the Pope, and a king or a queen, and a doctor, and a lawyer, and a software entrepreneur, and a general or an admiral, and a wealthy house owner, and in perfect health, and beautiful, and famous, and… you get the point. We must eradicate all forms of inequality everywhere and in all aspects. 

How convenient for President Carter to have realized this now, and not when he was the sitting President and didn’t have to share his authority with anyone.

Laura writes:

The fact that Carter was president when no woman had yet been president was a violation of the human rights of women – and of children too.

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