Former President Jimmy Carter says much of the discrimination and abuse suffered by women around the world is attributable to a belief "that women are inferior in the eyes of God."I think you can leave the Christians out of that, thank you very much. I grant there are some traditionalists who are a little too selective in their reading of Ephesians 5, focusing on wifely "submission" to husbands while ignoring the husbands giving up their lives in service to their wives part. (Elsewhere described as "mutual submission in the Lord.") But that is in no way of the same order as the Islamic consideration of woman as of the devil.
Carter said such teachings by "leaders in Christianity, Islam and other religions" allow men to beat their wives and deny women their fundamental rights as human beings.
If Carter imagines himself to be defending women against radical Islam and feels he needs to toss Christianity in there so as not to inflame the hyper-sensitive, fine, but where do you get off talking human rights at all after locking lips with the Castro brothers for days and days, with nary a word about political prisoners in Cuba?
I guess Marxism fares better because it represses men and women equally?
