It's Official: The Insanity Of Jimmy Carter Is Finally Complete

There are many of us who have felt that former President Jimmy Carter could not surpass some of his looniness over the past few years but today, I can attest that the former President, the official Welcome Wagon Host of Hamas and Hezbollah, the dude with the key to the back door of Assad's castle in Syria, has officially sealed any doubt that he has reached the status of clinically insane.

I can't even type here what has afforded Carter this achievement. You have to read it yourself or you won't believe it. But, before you do, remember....this is the Jimmy Carter that has wagered every ounce of respect he's ever had in America on his desire to further the cause of islamists in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon and Iran and has sat down to speak with more islamic terrorists than any white man in the world. Okay, here's the latest from Politics Daily:

After more than 60 years together, Jimmy Carter has announced himself at odds with the Southern Baptist Church -- and he's decided it's time they go their separate ways. Via Feministing, the former president called the decision "unavoidable" after church leaders prohibited women from being ordained and insisted women be "subservient to their husbands."

Let's see more of Carter's own words on this subject where he refers to the treatment of women in religions across the world:

At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives, and continues to deny them fair access to education, health, employment and influence within their own communities.

You can read Carter's entire essay here on this subject but what old Jimmy has done in that essay is this - he has placed a faction of the Protestant religion, namely the Southern Baptists, on the same plain as the Islamists of this world....he argues that discrimination and oppression is the same anywhere so when Islamists stone a woman to death in Iran for showing a portion of her wrist in public, that is the same as the Southern Baptist Church not allowing women to be ordained in the ministry. Same thing, right?

I ask you, is this not insanity, total full-fledged insanity?

This is a man, James Earl Carter, who has sipped tea with the most aggregious violators of women's rights in the entire world. This is a man who has turned his back on the religiously righteous in Israel so he can aid Islamic terrorists in Gaza and the West Bank. This is a man who kissed Arafat on the cheek and now has the rationale to quit his church because they believe in the writings of the Holy Bible.

Put this guy into a home, people.

Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women

After more than 60 years together, Jimmy Carter has announced himself at odds with the Southern Baptist Church -- and he's decided it's time they go their separate ways. Via Feministing, the former president called the decision "unavoidable" after church leaders prohibited women from being ordained and insisted women be "subservient to their husbands." Said Carter in an essay in The Age:

At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives, and continues to deny them fair access to education, health, employment and influence within their own communities.

And, later:

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.

After watching everyone from philandering politicians to Iran's president taking a sudden look heavenwards when the roof starts to come down on them, it's refreshing to see Carter calling out the role of religion in the mistreatment of women. The question for Carter -- and for others who find themselves at odds with leadership -- is, when a group you're deeply involved in starts to move away from your own core beliefs, do you stay and try to change from within or, at some point, do you have to look for the exit? Carter did give the former a shot -- in recent years publicly criticizing and distancing himself from church leadership, while staying involved with his church. Now, he's seeing if absence might do what presence did not.