Jimmy Carter disappoints on the issue of Texas and gay marriage

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/179745/heritage-foundation-launching-yet-another-right-wing-news-site

Heritage Foundation Launching (Yet Another) Right-Wing News Site

Just what the world needs, right, after The Daily Caller and The Blaze and the various Brietbart outlets, not to mention NRO (and I could go on)? But today comes the announcement: On June 3, the Heritage Foundation will launch another conservative website, The Daily Signal, that purportedly will balance or subvert the complete and noxious left-wing control of all reality-based news.

Don’t worry, there will also be an opinion section partly aimed at the kiddies who find Fox and The Wall Street Journal too fuddy-duddy....

Look--Jimmy Carter simply relayed a few FACTS--that marriage laws, like voting laws, are STATE issues, not federal ones (who here has a "federal" marriage license? Anyone? Bueller? And who has voted -- even in a FEDERAL election -- under anything but state or territorial voting laws?).

They took Jimmy Carter's simple statements of FACT, and presented them in such a way to suggest that he was endorsing a position.

It's how they do it.

Divide and conquer...oh so easy. We should be more attuned to this sort of attack, because it's their new strategy.

Carter is a 'religious' guy and he also does not believe that churches should be forced to officiate at marriages that go against their belief systems (who would want to patronize such bigoted faiths, anyway?) but he has said he favors equality in marriage civilly and at churches that do not discriminate--like the one HE belongs to.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jimmy-carter-supports-same-sex-marriage-as-he-launches-his-new-bible

President Carter told Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, senior religion editor of The Huffington Post:

Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies. (Emphasis added.)

However, he said he drew the line, “maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people.”

“If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn’t require them to,” he said, adding his own church accepts “gay members on an equal basis.”

When Raushenbush pressed him about whether he believed the Bible is God’s word, Carter answered, “the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.”

“There are many verses in the Bible that you could interpret very rigidly,” Carter said, “and that makes you ultimately into a fundamentalist.”

See how they spun his position and made it seem like he was "endorsing" Texas's "right" to be bigoted? He wasn't doing that at all. He said it's a state's issue--and that is a fact. It is. Even if you get married by a federal judge, the marriage LICENSE is issued by the state where the marriage occurs.