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than George W. Bush? For certain he was a better President.

Five years ago, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President of the Southern Baptist Theology Seminary, wrote:

Mr. Carter's curious blend of liberal theology and liberal positions on moral issues sets him far apart from the SBC--and this is no recent development. The former president has supported the cause of gay rights, and co-chaired a Human Rights Campaign effort in Georgia. The Southern Baptist Convention refuses to compromise the Bible's clear teaching that homosexuality is sinful. The SBC champions biblical inerrancy, affirming that Scripture is truth "without any mixture of error." Mr. Carter has recently admitted to doubting the validity of some biblical miracles. "But I now believe that, even if some of the more dramatic miracles recounted in the Gospels could be untrue, my faith in Christ would still be equally precious and unshaken." Jimmy, We Hardly Knew Ye: Carter Renounces the SBC

Lonna Gooden VanHorn, writing Jan. 23 at OpEdNews.com:

Jimmy Carter belonged to the Southern Baptist Church most of his life. He quit that church in 2000 when a new “Baptist Faith and Message” statement was adopted. It deleted the premise that “the sole authority for faith and practice among Baptists is Jesus Christ, whose will is revealed in the Holy Scriptures,” substituting Southern Baptist leaders for Jesus as interpreters of biblical Scripture. He also decried the church’s continuing treatment of women as inferior to men and the take over of the church leadership -- a concern shared by former Republican senator and Episcopal priest, John Danforth -- by the Republican Party. He believes very strongly, and says the Baptist Church of his time believed very strongly, in the separation of church and state. Jimmy Carter, A President Whose god Was Not Greed

VanHorn also reminds us:

During Carter’s presidency, when the United States was perceived as the leader among nations in the fight for justice and the rule of law, world leaders came to the White House to have their grievances addressed. The cause of world peace was advanced. That would be unthinkable today when world leaders neither respect nor trust America’s leaders, and believe that America is fast becoming a “rogue nation.” He calls it “embarrassing” that America, long seen as a champion of human rights is now condemned as a nation that tortures.