Considering Jimmy is a Baptist, a Sunday school teacher, he's just wonderfully refreshing...
In response to the question if he thinks Jesus would approve of gay marriage, Jimmy Carter says:
"I believe Jesus would. I don't have any verse in scripture. ... I believe Jesus would approve gay marriage, but that's just my own personal belief. I think Jesus would encourage any love affair if it was honest and sincere and was not damaging to anyone else, and I don't see that gay marriage damages anyone else," Jimmy Carter, said.
Interview from HP here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/07/jimmy-ca … 44390.html
As if we need one more example of his integrity, President Carter has announced he is leaving the Southern Baptist Church. The former president called the decision "unavoidable" after church leaders prohibited women from being ordained and insisted women be "subservient to their husbands."
President Carter said, “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.”
Carter gets it.