There is NO Excuse for Bigotry and Idolatry Anywhere on Earth 126 Members of Congress Who Are Unfit to Be Public Servants
There is no excuse for bigotry and idolatry anywhere on earth these 126 people are unfit to serve as legislators or hold any public office
Distinct Difference Between Leadership = Statesmanship and Being a Traitor Exemplified in the Juxtaposition of James Earl Carter and the MOB
| Official portrait, 1977 | |
| 39th President of the United States | |
|---|---|
| In office January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 | |
| Vice President | Walter Mondale |
| Preceded by | Gerald Ford |
| Succeeded by | Ronald Reagan |
| 76th Governor of Georgia | |
| In office January 12, 1971 – January 14, 1975 | |
| Lieutenant | Lester Maddox |
| Preceded by | Lester Maddox |
| Succeeded by | George Busbee |
| Member of the Georgia State Senate from the 14th district | |
| In office January 14, 1963 – January 10, 1967 | |
| Preceded by | District established |
| Succeeded by | Hugh Carter |
| Personal details | |
| Born | James Earl Carter Jr. October 1, 1924 (age 96) Plains, Georgia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Rosalynn Smith (m. 1946) |
| Children | 4, including Jack and Amy |
| Parents | James Earl Carter Sr.Lillian Gordy |
| Residence | Plains, Georgia, U.S. |
| Education | United States Naval Academy (BS, 1946) |
| Civilian awards | List of honors and awards |
| Signature | |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch/service |  United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1946–1953 (active)1953–1961 (reserve) |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Military awards | American Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal China Service Medal National Defense Service Medal |
| This article is part of a series aboutJimmy Carter |
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James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and philanthropist who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a Georgia State Senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Since leaving the presidency, Carter has remained engaged in political and social projects as a private citizen. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the Carter Center.
Raised in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree and joined the United States Navy, where he served on submarines. After the death of his father in 1953, Carter left his naval career and returned home to Georgia to take up the reins of his family’s peanut-growing business. Carter inherited comparatively little due to his father’s forgiveness of debts and the division of the estate among the children. Nevertheless, his ambition to expand and grow the Carters’ peanut business was fulfilled. During this period, Carter was motivated to oppose the political climate of racial segregation and support the growing civil rights movement. He became an activist within the Democratic Party. From 1963 to 1967, Carter served in the Georgia State Senate, and in 1970, he was elected as Governor of Georgia, defeating former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic primary on an anti-segregation platform advocating affirmative action for ethnic minorities. Carter remained as governor until 1975. Despite being a dark-horse candidate who was little known outside of Georgia at the start of the campaign, Carter won the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. In the general election, Carter ran as an outsider and narrowly defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford.
During Carter’s term as president, two new cabinet-level departments, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education, were established. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), and the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. On the economic front, he confronted stagflation, a persistent combination of high inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter escalated the Cold War when he ended détente, imposed a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciated the Carter Doctrine, and led a 1980 Summer Olympics boycott in Moscow. In 1980, Carter faced a challenge from Senator Ted Kennedy in the primaries, but he won re-nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Carter lost the general election to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan in an electoral landslide. He is the only president in American history to serve a full term of office and never appoint a justice to the Supreme Court. Polls of historians and political scientists usually rank Carter as a below-average president. Carter’s activities since leaving the presidency have been viewed more favorably than his presidency itself.
In 1982, Carter established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights. He has traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations. Carter is considered a key figure in the Habitat for Humanity charity. He has written over 30 books, ranging from political memoirs to poetry, while continuing to actively comment on ongoing American and global affairs such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Abortion
Although Carter was “personally opposed” to abortion, he supported legalized abortion after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113 (1973).[citation needed] As president, he did not support increased federal funding for abortion services. He was criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union for not doing enough to find alternatives.[380]
In a March 29, 2012 interview with Laura Ingraham, Carter expressed his current view of abortion and his wish to see the Democratic Party becoming more pro-life:[381]
I never have believed that Jesus Christ would approve of abortions and that was one of the problems I had when I was president having to uphold Roe v. Wade and I did everything I could to minimize the need for abortions. I made it easy to adopt children for instance who were unwanted and also initiated the program called Women and Infant Children or WIC program that’s still in existence now. But except for the times when a mother’s life is in danger or when a pregnancy is caused by rape or incest I would certainly not or never have approved of any abortions. I’ve signed a public letter calling for the Democratic Party at the next convention to espouse my position on abortion which is to minimize the need, requirement for abortion and limit it only to women whose life [sic] are in danger or who are pregnant as a result of rape or incest. I think if the Democratic Party would adopt that policy that would be acceptable to a lot of people who are now estranged from our party because of the abortion issue.
Death penalty
Carter is known for his strong opposition to the death penalty, which he expressed during his presidential campaigns. In his Nobel Prize lecture, Carter urged “prohibition of the death penalty”.[382] He has continued to speak out against the death penalty in the U.S. and abroad.[383]
In a letter to the Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, Carter urged the governor to sign a bill to eliminate the death penalty and institute life in prison without parole instead. New Mexico abolished the death penalty in 2009. Carter wrote: “As you know, the United States is one of the few countries, along with nations such as Saudi Arabia, China, and Cuba, which still carry out the death penalty despite the ongoing tragedy of wrongful conviction and gross racial and class-based disparities that make impossible the fair implementation of this ultimate punishment.”[384] In 2012, Carter wrote an op-ed in the LA Times supporting passage of a state referendum which would have ended the death penalty. He opened the article: “The process for administering the death penalty in the United States is broken beyond repair, and it is time to choose a more effective and moral alternative. California voters will have the opportunity to do this on election day.”[385]
Carter has also called for commutations of death sentences for many death-row inmates, including Brian K. Baldwin (executed in 1999 in Alabama),[386] Kenneth Foster (sentence in Texas commuted in 2007)[387][388] and Troy Davis (executed in Georgia in 2011).[389]
Equality for women
In October 2000, Carter, a third-generation Southern Baptist, severed connections to the Southern Baptist Convention over its opposition to women as pastors. What led Carter to take this action was a doctrinal statement by the Convention, adopted in June 2000, advocating a literal interpretation of the Bible. This statement followed a position of the Convention two years previously advocating the submission of wives to their husbands. Carter described the reason for his decision as due to: “an increasing inclination on the part of Southern Baptist Convention leaders to be more rigid on what is a Southern Baptist and exclusionary of accommodating those who differ from them.” The New York Times called Carter’s action “the highest-profile defection yet from the Southern Baptist Convention.”[390]
On July 15, 2009, Carter wrote an opinion piece about equality for women in which he stated that he chooses equality for women over the dictates of the leadership of what has been a lifetime religious commitment. He said that the view that women are inferior is not confined to one faith, “nor, tragically does its influence stop at the walls of the church, mosque, synagogue or temple.” Carter stated:
The truth is that male religious leaders have had—and still have—an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter. Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the world. This is in clear violation not just of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but also the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul, Moses and the prophets, Muhammad, and founders of other great religions—all of whom have called for proper and equitable treatment of all the children of God. It is time we had the courage to challenge these views.[391]
In 2014, he published A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power.[392]
Gun control
Carter has publicly expressed support both for a ban on assault weapons and for background checks of gun buyers.[393] In May 1994, Carter and former presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives in support of banning “semi-automatic assault guns.”[394] In a February 2013 appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight, Carter agreed that if the assault weapons ban did not pass it would be mainly due to lobbying by the National Rifle Association and its pressure on “weak-kneed” politicians.[395]
Same-sex marriage
Carter has stated that he supports same-sex marriage in civil ceremonies.[396] He has also stated that he believes Jesus would also support it, saying “I believe Jesus would. I don’t have any verse in scripture. … I believe Jesus would approve gay marriage, but that’s just my own personal belief. I think Jesus would encourage any love affair if it was honest and sincere and was not damaging to anyone else, and I don’t see that gay marriage damages anyone else.”[397][396] Evangelist Franklin Graham criticized the assertion as “absolutely wrong.”[398][399] In October 2014, Carter argued ahead of a Supreme Court ruling that legalization of same-sex marriage should be left up to the states and not mandated by federal law.[400]
Race in politics
Carter ignited debate in September 2009 when he stated, “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he is African-American.”[401] Obama disagreed with Carter’s assessment. On CNN Obama stated, “Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are … that’s not the overriding issue here.”[402]
Torture
In a 2008 interview with Amnesty International, Carter criticized the use of torture at Guantánamo Bay, saying that it “contravenes the basic principles on which this nation was founded.”[403] He stated that the next president should make the promise that the United States will “never again torture a prisoner.”[404]
Healthcare
In an October 2013 interview, Carter labeled the Affordable Care Act President Obama’s major accomplishment and said “the implementation of it now is questionable at best”.[405] In July 2017, Carter concluded the U.S. would eventually see the implementation of a single-payer healthcare system.[406][407]
Campaign finance laws
Carter vigorously opposed the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC that struck down limits on campaign spending by corporations and unions, going so far as to saying that the U.S. is “no longer a functioning democracy” and now has a system of “unlimited political bribery”.[408]
Health issues
On August 3, 2015, Carter underwent elective surgery to remove “a small mass” on his liver, and his prognosis for a full recovery was initially said to be “excellent”. On August 12, however, Carter announced he had been diagnosed with cancer that had metastasized, without specifying where the cancer had originated.[434] On August 20, he disclosed that melanoma had been found in his brain and liver, and that he had begun treatment with the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab and was about to start radiation therapy. His healthcare is being managed by Emory Healthcare of Atlanta. The former president has an extensive family history of cancer, including both of his parents and all three of his siblings.[435] On December 6, 2015, Carter issued a statement that his medical scans no longer showed any cancer.[436]
On May 13, 2019, Carter broke his hip at his Plains home and underwent surgery the same day at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia.[437] On October 6, 2019, a forehead injury above his left eyebrow received during another fall at home required 14 stitches.[438] A public appearance afterward revealed that the former President had a black eye from the injury.[439] On October 21, 2019, Carter was admitted to the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center after suffering a minor pelvic fracture he obtained after falling again at home for the third time in 2019.[440] He was subsequently able to resume teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church on November 3, 2019.[441][442] On November 11, 2019, Carter was hospitalized at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta[443] for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding connected to his falls.[444] The surgery was successful, and Carter was released from the hospital on November 27.[445][443]
Longevity
Carter, the earliest-serving living former president since the death of Gerald Ford in 2006, became the oldest to ever attend a presidential inauguration, in 2017 at age 92, and the first to live to the 40th anniversary of his own.[446][447] Two years later, on March 22, 2019, he gained the distinction of being the nation’s longest-lived president, when he surpassed the lifespan of George H. W. Bush, who was 94 years, 171 days of age when he died in November 2018; both men were born in 1924.[448] On October 1, 2019, Carter became the first U.S. president to live to the age of 95,[449] and on October 1, 2020, he became the first president to live to the age of 96.[450]
Funeral and burial plans
Carter has made arrangements to be buried in front of his home in Plains, Georgia. Carter noted in 2006 that a funeral in Washington, D.C., with visitation at the Carter Center was planned as well.[451]
| Official portrait, 1977 | |
| 39th President of the United States | |
|---|---|
| In office January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 | |
| Vice President | Walter Mondale |
| Preceded by | Gerald Ford |
| Succeeded by | Ronald Reagan |
| 76th Governor of Georgia | |
| In office January 12, 1971 – January 14, 1975 | |
| Lieutenant | Lester Maddox |
| Preceded by | Lester Maddox |
| Succeeded by | George Busbee |
| Member of the Georgia State Senate from the 14th district | |
| In office January 14, 1963 – January 10, 1967 | |
| Preceded by | District established |
| Succeeded by | Hugh Carter |
| Personal details | |
| Born | James Earl Carter Jr. October 1, 1924 (age 96) Plains, Georgia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Rosalynn Smith (m. 1946) |
| Children | 4, including Jack and Amy |
| Parents | James Earl Carter Sr.Lillian Gordy |
| Residence | Plains, Georgia, U.S. |
| Education | United States Naval Academy (BS, 1946) |
| Civilian awards | List of honors and awards |
| Signature | |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch/service | United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1946–1953 (active)1953–1961 (reserve) |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Military awards | American Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal China Service Medal National Defense Service Medal |
| This article is part of a series aboutJimmy Carter |
|---|
| Governor of GeorgiaGovernorshipPresident of the United StatesPresidency TimelineAppointmentsCabinetJudiciaryInaugurationCamp David Accords Egypt–Israel Peace TreatyTorrijos–Carter TreatiesIran hostage crisis Operation Eagle ClawMoral Equivalent of War speech1979 energy crisisCarter DoctrineU.S.–China relationsTimeline ’77’78’79’80’80–81showPresidential campaignsPost-presidencyPresidential LibraryAwards and honorsBibliographyActivitiesCarter CenterOne America Appeal |
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