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Jimmy Carter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is attacking violence against women and blasting the people who use religion to propagate it. Calling the the physical and emotional abuse, subjugation, trafficking, and inequality of women the \u201cworst and most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on Earth,\u201d\u00a0the Democratic former U.S. President is out with a new book,\u00a0A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
In a weekend interview, Carter, a Georgia Democrat, told\u00a0NPR<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cyou can pick out individual verses throughout the Bible that shows that the verse favors your particular preference, and the fact that the Catholic Church, for instance, prohibits women from serving as priests or even deacons gives a kind of a permission to male people all over the world, that well, if God thinks that women are inferior, I\u2019ll treat them as inferiors. If she\u2019s my wife, I can abuse her with impunity, or if I\u2019m an employer, I can pay my female employees less salary.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
This is a long-running focus for former President Carter, who served in the White House from 1977-1981.\u00a0In 2009 he left his Southern Baptist religion,\u00a0writing<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ccarefully selected verses\u201d in the Bible were used \u201cto justify the superiority of men.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jimmy Carter\u00a0is attacking violence against women and blasting the people who use religion to propagate it. Calling the the physical and emotional abuse, subjugation, trafficking, and inequality of women the \u201cworst and most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on Earth,\u201d\u00a0the Democratic former U.S. President is out with a new book,\u00a0A Call to Action: Women, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nJimmy Carter Cites Religion As A Root Cause Of Violence Against Women<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jimmy Carter is attacking violence against women and blasting the people who use religion to propagate it. 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