Jimmy Carter: Catholic & Southern Baptist Bans on Female Clergy Lead to ‘Abuse of Women’

Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter said the Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist policies of not having female clergy leads to the "abuse of women."“My wife is perhaps the most famous Baptist deacon in the world, but in the Southern Baptist Convention there’s a policy that women cannot be pastors, they cannot be deacons, they cannot be chaplains, and in some of the Southern Baptist seminaries or universities, it’s prohibited for a woman to teach a classroom that has boys as students,” Carter said. “And we know that the Catholic Church ordained back in the third or fourth century that women could not serve as priests. They could be teachers. They could be nurses. But they can’t be priests.”

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