--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@> > > wrote: > <snip> > > > Carter was a fundie nut , just like bush and bin laden. > > > Get a real perspective instead of the usual brainwashed american > > > perspective. > > > No-one outside US buys this american BS..Why do you suppose that > > > is....coincidence? > > > > Guess that's why he was awarded the Nobel Peace > > Prize, huh? > > > > In fact, Carter is widely respected outside the > > U.S., probably more so than *in* the U.S. > > Not that he doesn't have his faults and blind spots. > > But just for example, he was the first U.S. > president to speak out in support of gay rights; he > is an ardent conservationist and supporter of the > rights of women and minorities. He has been > recognized internationally, via many awards and > honors, as a peacemaker and human rights advocate. > He's also a very strong supporter of the separation > of church and state. > > Plus which, he has written an entire book ("Our > Endangered Values") condemning the socially > conservative agenda of today's fundamentalist > Christians.>>>
Ok, so as an old man he has changed, just like Billie Graham now accepts other religions as legitimate. I accept Carter is a nice guy, but religion poisons politics with its arrogance - and I have no tolerance for it in politics. I think that every president should have to declare out loud on being inaugerated: " I believe all people are equal, and that no religion or non- religion is superior to another, and I do not hold my own religion as superior, but a means to express my feelings to God" Or something like that. At the time of his inauguration GW Bush would have choked on those words, because he is a fundamentalist, and I am not sure Carter would have been able to say it at his innaguration either > > In an interview with Mother Jones magazine (hardly > a fundie rag) about the book, he said of this agenda: > > The danger comes when those kinds of principles are applied on the > international scene. That brought about a whole gamut of things. One, > obviously, is the unprecedented preemptive war that President Bush > has declared to be a policy of our country. Another is the total > abandonment, and often the derogation, of every nuclear-arms > agreement that has been negotiated by previous presidents, beginning > in the time of Dwight Eisenhower. > > At home, it brought about the deterioration of our commitment to > environmental quality. Another [effect] is the enormous preference > that has been given in tax laws recently to the extremely rich at the > expense of working-class and poorer people. Then there's the implied > melding of science and religion, where even the president himself has > expressed the opinion that religious beliefs should be taught in > scientific classrooms. That's unprecedented. And there is a unique > and special emphasiswhich is a recent development toowithin the > religious community, an obsession with the condemnation of > homosexuality. Now, in the bible homosexuality is condemned, but > along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So > its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has > been very disturbing to me. > > http://tinyurl.com/gu2k7 > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
