No truth to the rumor that this was said after downing copious amounts of Billy Beer though then at least he'd have an excuse for his idiocy.
Time Magazine with details on the latest evidence for Jimmy Carter's complete lunacy:
To repeat myself in a way, I think that what the major religious leaders say is used by others who discriminate against women as justification for their human rights abuse. For instance if an employer, who might be otherwise enlightened, if he is a religious person and he sees that, he might be a Catholic, and a Catholic does not let women be priests, then why should he pay his women employees an equal pay [as men]?
In the United States that prevails all over. We have an average now of about 70% that a woman earns compared to a 100% that a man earns for doing the same job. And very few of the corporate boards have I think 50% women. Very few of them. And of course we have a very few percentage of women in our House of Representatives and in our Senate. We never yet had a woman president, but I think that’s going to come in the near future. But I think in general terms this is a very derogating thing.
It is much worse in some of the third world countries where genital cutting is condoned and girls are forced to marry when they are as young as 8 or 10 years old and they have no voice in who their husband might be or when they get married. And you see the extreme case with Al Qaeda and particularly with the Taliban in Afghanistan. So these are the kind of things that permeate society in a very general way and it afflicts almost every single community in America and almost throughout the world. There is a sense that women are not quite equal to men both politically and economically and in religious terms.
You see what he did there?
It's not just that corporate bosses propagating unequal pay for women are influenced by the Catholic Church
Mr. Carter should check into what the Church has to say about Mary the Mother of Jesus. He ought to check into how the Church honors and reveres her. He ought to then check into the odd notion that she is a bonafide female. Maybe then he could go ahead and check into the nearest mental ward.
Jimmy's got a big heart and we should applaud that.
Jimmy's got a very small brain and this should not be applauded at all.
Carry on.
With props to The Crescat for the graphic.