Former President Jimmy Carter: Jesus Would Have Approved Of Gay Marriage

As you'd expect, Teabagistan is losing its shit.

Jimmy Carter: States Should Decide On Marriage, Not The Federal Government

"I'm kind of inclined to let the states decide individually. As you see, more and more states are deciding on gay marriage every year. If Texas doesn't want to have gay marriage, then I think that's a right for Texas people to decide. I don't think that the government ought to ever have the right to tell a church to marry people if the church doesn't want to. I'm a Baptist, and the congregation of our church will decide whether we have a man or a woman as pastor, and whether we'll marry gay people or not." - Former president Jimmy Carter, speaking to a Texas television station. Last year Carter declared that same-sex marriage should be legal nationwide.

Jimmy Carter Turns 90

Happy 90th Birthday, President Carter! Michelle and I send our best wishes to you and Rosalynn. -bo pic.twitter.com/Du99I0S524
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 1, 2014

Last night President Obama congratulated former President Jimmy Carter on his 90th birthday. Carter is the sixth US president to become a nonagenarian. The others: George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Herbert Hoover, and John Adams. To date, Ford was the longest-lived president at 93 years, 165 days.

Jimmy Carter Slams "Nutcases" Who Block Anti-Global Warming Campaigns

“We’ve seen some countries devote themselves to renewable energy.  The United States is right at the bottom, with only 10 percent of our energy coming from renewable sources. So we still have a tremendous opportunity to do what we haven’t done. The biggest problem we have right now is some nutcases in our country who don’t believe in global warming. I think that they are going to change their position because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is coming or is already there." - Former President Jimmy Carter, speaking yesterday at a renewable energy summit. The people are Twitchy are predictably losing their shit at being called nutcases.

Trump: I Was Joking About Jimmy Carter

Uh huh. Yeah.

Donald Trump Kills Jimmy Carter

UPDATE: Zombie Jimmy Carter is pissed.

Jimmy Carter Is Evil For Accepting Gays

"We are commanded to spread the gospel for the salvation of many. I know this hasn’t been a big part of Jimmy Carter’s life. But it remains the unequivocal, central role of the Christian in the world. We’re not supposed to just live and let live – because to do that actually means death for those we don’t confront with their sin and the salvation message. [snip] This is why I call Jimmy Carter a truly evil person. He still tries to masquerade as a Christian, though his views are increasingly heretical if not those of an apostate. Jesus says when judgment day comes, there will be some He turns away, even though they claim to have prophesied in His name." - Three-time Just For Men gold medalist and World Net Daily founder Joseph Farah, writing about Jimmy Carter's recent endorsement of same-sex marriage.

Jimmy Carter Endorses Marriage Equality

"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. I draw the line, maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people. I’m a Baptist, and I believe that each congregation is autonomous and can govern its own affairs. So if a local Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church does by the way, then that is fine. If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn’t require them to." - Jimmy Carter, speaking to the Huffington Post.

Walter Mondale To Fight MN Marriage Ban

Former Vice President Walter Mondale, 84, has come out against the pending ban on same-sex marriage in his home state of Minnesota.

Mondale and former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz are promoting Lawyers United for All Families, which is working to defeat the proposed constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage. The two co-signed a letter urging colleagues to vote no on the amendment question, which will be on November's state-wide ballot. "Our constitution is a hard-earned gift from those who preceded us, and an enduring promise to those who will follow us," Mondale said in a statement. "It should be used to protect individual liberty, not to take it away."

Thank you Mr. Vice President!

Jimmy Carter: Best Former President Ever

Jimmy Carter's two-decade battle against a global pest in approaching victory.

This fight against the guinea worm is a battle former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has waged for more than two decades in some of the poorest countries on earth. It is a battle he's almost won. In the 1950s the 3-foot-long guinea worm ravaged the bodies of an estimated 50 million people, forcing victims through months of pain while the worm exited through a swollen blister on the leg, making it impossible for them to tend to cows or harvest crops. By 1986, the number dropped to 3.5 million. Last year only 3,190 cases were reported. Today the worm is even closer to being wiped out. Fewer than 1,700 cases have been found this year in only four countries — Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali and Sudan, where more than 95 percent of the cases are. The worm's near-eradication is thanks in large part to the efforts of Carter and his foundation. "I'm still determined to outlive the last guinea worm," Carter told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Best. Former. President. EVER.

Quote Of The Day - Barney Frank

“It’s one thing to have a gay person in the abstract. It’s another to see that person as part of a living, breathing couple. How would a gay presidential candidate have a celebratory kiss with his partner after winning the New Hampshire primary? The sight of two women kissing has not been as distressful to people as the sight of two men kissing. [And because of DOMA] it’s not clear that a gay president could use federal funds to buy his husband dinner. Would his partner have to pay rent in the White House? There would be no Secret Service protection for the paramour." - Rep. Barney Frank, responding to Jimmy Carter's contention that America is ready for a gay president.

Quote Of The Day II - Jimmy Carter

"Step-by-step, we have realized that this issue of homosexuality has the same adverse and progressive elements as when we dealt with the race issue 50 years ago, or 40 years ago. So I would say that the country is getting acclimated to a president who might be female, who might, obviously, now, be Black, and who might be as well a gay person." - Former President Jimmy Carter, in a video commentary on Big Think.

Backlash Against Jimmy Carter Begins

Fox is lashing back at Jimmy Carter for saying that much of the criticism of Obama is borne of racism. Laura Ingraham: "There's nothing worse than a self-loathing Southerner." Nothing, Laura?

Quote Of The Day - Jimmy Carter

"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's African American. I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans. And that racism inclination still exists. . . . It's an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply." - Former president Jimmy Carter, speaking to NBC News.

Photo Of The Day

The Clintons, the Dubyas, the Obamas, the Bidens, and the Carters sat together at today's memorial for Sen. Ted Kennedy. The elder Bushes elected not to attend, which seems odd.

Carter: Hamas Will Accept Peace With Israel

Despite earning the wrath of the left and the right for meeting with Hamas, Jimmy Carter seems to have made some progress where others could not.

Jimmy Carter says Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, and other senior members of the Islamic militant group he met with in Damascus have told him they are willing to accept a peace agreement negotiated by the moderate Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas - if the agreement is approved by Palestinians in a referendum.

"They said they would accept a Palestinian state under 1967 borders if approved by Palestinians," Mr. Carter said. "And they would accept the right of Israel to live as a neighbor next door in peace, provided the agreements negotiated by Prime Minister Olmert and President Abbas were submitted to the Palestinians for their overall approval - even though Hamas might disagree with some terms of the agreement."

Carter says that Hamas rejected his plea for a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Superdelegate Jimmy Carter Goes Obama

Speaking to a Nigerian newspaper, former President Jimmy Carter made it clear how he's casting his vote as a superdelegate, saying, "My children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama. As a superdelegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for, but I leave you to make that guess."

If you include Carter's coy statement, Obama leads 8-3 among Georgia's 13 superdelegates, with two others yet to disclose their preference.

Jimmy Carter Gets Pissed

Calling Bush the "worst president in history" in international relations, Jimmy Carter said yesterday: "We now have endorsed the concept of preemptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that sometime in the future our security might be endangered." This is considered to be the strongest denunciation of a sitting president by a former. Carter went on to tell the BBC that Tony Blair's support for Bush was "Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently subservient."

I love Jimmy Carter, always have.