#Restinpeace Champion of Biblical equality🙏🧵 "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.” Jimmy Carter 
#2 "There's no evidence at all that Jesus Christ did anything except to exalt women. Never has a single word or action been alleged to him that would deprive women from their equal or superior rights," Carter said. "Everybody is equal in the eyes of God." -Jimmy Carter
#3 "I'm familiar with the verses they have quoted about wives being subjugated to their husbands...In my opinion, this is a distortion of the meaning of Scripture...I personally feel that women should play an absolutely equal role in service of Christ in the church."-Jimmy Carter
#4"If a husband has a wife, or an employer has a female employee, & they're religious...& they see that women are not equal in the eyes of men, in the eyes of God, why should they treat their wife equally?...why should they pay their female employees an equal salary?"Jimmy Carter
#5 "The misinterpretation of religious scriptures is the foundation of abuse against women and girls." -Jimmy Carter
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