NEWSMAX: … “I think the problem was that — in dealing with the issue of peace in between Israel and Egypt — the Carter Center has taken a very strong and public position of equal treatment between the Palestinians and the Israelis,” said Carter. “And I think this was a sensitive area in which the president didn’t want to be involved.” …
Carter also told [NBC’s Andrea] Mitchell that he left the Southern Baptist Convention last year after it passed rules at its annual meeting “to require that women be subservient to their husbands, and women could no longer serve as a pastoral priest or as a deacon.”…
Carter also commented on the situation in Ukraine. In 1980, he banned U.S. athletes from participating in the Moscow Olympics after the then-Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, and said where the Ukraine is concerned, “there has to be a concerted international prohibition against Putin going any further than Crimea.”… (more)
