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Jimmy Carter's application of his faith disappointed many Christian conservatives
01 Jan 2025 23:51 GMT
… faithful church attendance attracted many newly energized evangelical voters, … included same-sex couples — anathema to most conservative Christians.
No … more resembled the Religious Left’s utopian … the National Council of Churches,” a theologically and …
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Jimmy the Baptist: Carter redefined ‘evangelical,’ from campaigns to race and women’s rights
01 Jan 2025 05:14 GMT
… himself from many evangelicals by criticizing Israel … religions.
Carter evolved on equal rights and gay … homosexuality. The answer did not contemplate same-sex … Christianity, he predicted, “but the church is evolving.”
Buttigieg, an Episcopalian whose same-sex …
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Persons of the Year 2024: The Exiled Bishops
31 Dec 2024 19:01 GMT
… eleven pastors from the evangelical church Puerta de la Montaña … bishops are doing, and sent a message to all Christians … the dictatorship against the religious institution.”
Nicaraguan journalist Israel … the Matagalpa Curia, and Lesbia Gutiérrez, an employee of …
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Jimmy Carter embodied the ‘road not taken’ by many White evangelical Christians
31 Dec 2024 14:20 GMT
… a “bellwether for conservative Christianity.”
Many evangelical churches cite scriptures such as … on racism, homosexuality, abortion and the separation of church and state. … favor with evangelicals.
“As other evangelicals drifted to the religious right, Carter …
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‘A shining example’: Religious leaders praise the late former President Jimmy Carter
30 Dec 2024 22:52 GMT
… heaping praise on the evangelical Christian Democrat known for teaching Sunday … States Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed hope that Carter … him for “including church-state separation and religious freedom among the … voice support for same-sex marriage.
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Here’s what Jimmy Carter did for LGBTQ rights – including inviting gay activists to the White House
30 Dec 2024 16:57 GMT
… a debt of gratitude.”
An evangelical Christian, Carter was socially liberal … foreign service’s ban on gay and lesbian personnel – a hang- … when asked why, as a Christian, he didn’t not view … replied that Jesus “never mentioned homosexuals in any way, certainly …
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When Carter ran for president, advisers worried Christian faith would be a liability
29 Dec 2024 23:55 GMT
… teacher and church deacon might need to tone down his religiosity to … wrong type of evangelical for the evangelicals of the Christian right — but an … moderate centrist on abortion and gay rights. He believed strongly in …
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Jimmy Carter rid the presidency of lies. His fellow evangelicals? Not so much.
29 Dec 2024 23:55 GMT
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The roots of the religious right lie in the cancellation … academies,” many of them church-related schools. In the … asked Carter why “practicing homosexuals” served on the White … a fellow Southern Baptist and evangelical Christian, is mystifying. One can …
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Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. He invited the first gay activists to the White House
30 Dec 2024 01:38 GMT
… lifted its ban on gay and lesbian personnel, a huge … LGBTQ+ nonprofit state that homosexuality was “a diseased pathology.” … all religious beliefs. Since Carter’s defeat in 1980, evangelicals … Trump) and evangelical leaders have made gay-bashing their bread …
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Christian Faith Was a Hallmark of Former President Jimmy Carter’s Life
30 Dec 2024 00:59 GMT
… issues, including abortion, same-sex marriage, and the … an evangelical Christian … the basic elements of Christianity apply … accomplishments to advance religious liberty and reopen … plentiful, and overcrowded Christian churches were thriving.”
After …