Jimmy Carter: ‘J would approve gay marriage’ | The Hill

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• JIMMY CARTER: ‘I BELIEVE THAT J WOULD APPROVE OF GAY MARRIAGE’
• JIMMY CARTER SAYS ‘J WOULD APPROVE OF GAY MARRIAGE’ BUT NOT ABORTNS
• FORMER PRINT JIMMY CARTER ON GAY RIGHTS: J CHRIST NEVER DISCRIMATED AGAST ANYONE
• WHY FORMER PRINT JIMMY CARTER SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
• JIMMY CARTER SAYS J WOULD APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE
• JIMMY CARTER SAYS J WOULD APPROVE OF GAY MARRIAGE
• JIMMY CARTER: 'I BELIEVE J WOULD APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE'
• JIMMY CARTER: ‘J WOULD APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE’

JIMMY CARTER: ‘I BELIEVE THAT J WOULD APPROVE OF GAY MARRIAGE’

Print Carter said on Sunday he believ “J would approve of gay marriage. “I thk J would enurage any love affair if was hont and scere and was not damagg to anyone else and I don’t see that gay marriage damag anyone else, ” Carter, who scrib himself as a born-aga Christian, told HuffPost Live.

Former Print Jimmy Carter took another cril stand on equal rights when he said same-sex marriage should be left up to the stat to ci, while ntrastg his prev cisn that gay marriage should be legal natnwi. Sign up for the daily Insi Washgton email for exclive US verage and analysis sent to your boxGet our ee Insi Washgton emailJimmy Carter has said J would “approve” of same-sex marriage and so do 93-year-old former US print said on HuffPost Live: “I thk J would enurage any love affair if was hont and scere and was not damagg to anyone else and I don’t see that gay marriage damag anyone else”.

JIMMY CARTER SAYS ‘J WOULD APPROVE OF GAY MARRIAGE’ BUT NOT ABORTNS

Mr Carter was on the show to promote his new book tled A Full Life: Reflectns at Nety which he discsed the role of his fah his polil Democratic former peanut farmer has scribed himself as a born-aga Christian the past and noted on the programme that church which do not approve of gay marriage should be required to perform weddg ceremoni for same-sex upl. A quote attributed to former Print Jimmy Carter regardg J and homosexualy has spread on social ClaimA post om @ColoradoInpe1 shows a photo of Carter, the 39th print of the Uned Stat, alongsi a quote regardg homosexualy. This reads: "Homosexualy was well known the ancient world, well before Christ was born and J never said a word about homosexualy.

FORMER PRINT JIMMY CARTER ON GAY RIGHTS: J CHRIST NEVER DISCRIMATED AGAST ANYONE

In all of his teachgs about multiple thgs—he never said that gay people should be nmned. Sce Jimmy Carter is trendg, and 's Sunday, I thought I'd take the opportuny to really piss off some Evangelils wh his quote about homosexualy.

The FactsIn an terview wh HuffPost 2012, Carter was terviewed about "the harst qutns prented the bible" by the outlet's then Senr Relign Edor Pl Branis cid wh the release of Carter's book NIV, Lsons om Life Bible: Personal Reflectns wh Jimmy this terview, Rshenbh said: "A lot of people pot to the Bible for reasons why gay people should not be the church, or accepted any way.

"To this, Carter, who ed to be a Sunday school teacher, replied: "Homosexualy was well known the ancient world, well before Christ was born and J never said a word about homosexualy. "In all of his teachgs about multiple thgs—he never said that gay people should be nmned. I personally thk is very fe for gay people to be married civil ceremoni.

WHY FORMER PRINT JIMMY CARTER SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

"So if a lol Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church do by the way, then that is fe. A packed llege dorium roared wh applse when former Print Jimmy Carter took a stand for gay rights. Durg a 2012 terview, he told the Huffgton Post that he believ “ is very fe for gay people to be married civil ceremoni.

So if a lol Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church do by the way, then that is fe, " Carter said. ”RelatedgayJimmy CarterChristianyprint jimmy rterGay MarriageBefore You GoStraight Alli Who Support The LGBT CommunyPopular the CommunyYou May Like. Print Jimmy Carter once noted that "J never said a word about homosexualy"?

JIMMY CARTER SAYS J WOULD APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE

Print Jimmy Carter: "Homosexualy was well known the ancient world, well before Christ was born, and J never said a word about homosexualy.

[J] never said that gay people should be nmned. In rponse to a qutn about people cg the Bible as a reason for clg to accept gays, Carter rpond by notg that J "never said that gay people should be nmned.

" Carter add that he felt "gay people [should be able to] be married civil ceremoni":. Q: A lot of people pot to the Bible for reasons why gay people should not be the church, or accepted any way. A: Homosexualy was well known the ancient world, well before Christ was born and J never said a word about homosexualy.

JIMMY CARTER SAYS J WOULD APPROVE OF GAY MARRIAGE

In all of his teachgs about multiple thgs — he never said that gay people should be nmned.

So if a lol Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church do by the way, then that is fe. Related: Frankl Graham tells Jimmy Carter that J would kill gay people, not marry them. In 1977, Carter was the first print to have his staff meet wh gay and lbian rights activists at the Whe Hoe and me out agast Proposn 6 California 1978, a ballot iative that would have banned gays and lbians om teachg schools.

In all of [J'] teachgs about multiple thgs -– he never said that gay people should be nmned. "I thk J would enurage any love affair if was hont and scere and was not damagg to anyone else, and I don't see that gay marriage damag anyone else, " the former print said.

JIMMY CARTER: 'I BELIEVE J WOULD APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE'

"I wouldn't be favor of the ernment beg able to force a lol church ngregatn to perform gay marriag if they didn't want to.

“I believe J would approve gay marriage, but that’s jt my own personal belief, ” the 39th print of the Uned Stat said an terview webst July 7 on the Huffgton Post. “I thk J would enurage any kd of love affair if was hont and scere and was not damagg to anyone else, and I don’t see that gay marriag damage anyone else. Carter, who on Sundays when he is town teach Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church Plas, Ga., says he don’t “have any verse scripture” to back up his opn, but as a born-aga Christian he has no problem wh gay marriage.

JIMMY CARTER: ‘J WOULD APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE’

“The only thg I would draw a le on, I wouldn’t be favor of the ernment beg able to force a lol church ngregatn to perform gay marriag if they didn’t want to. HuffPost Live's Marc Lamont Hill asked Carter on Tuday whether he believ J would approve of gay marriage, and Carter said he do.