✅ True. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter told a journalist in 2012 that Jesus 'never said that gay people should be condemned.'
Rating:A meme dating to at least mid-2018 attributes the following statement to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter:"Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born, and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of His teachings about multiple things ... [Jesus] never said that gay people should be condemned.
In response to a question about people citing the Bible as a reason for declining to accept gays, Carter responded by noting that Jesus"never said that gay people should be condemned." Carter added that he felt"gay people [should be able to] be married in civil ceremonies": Q: A lot of people point to the Bible for reasons why gay people should not be in the church, or accepted in any way.
A: Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things — he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
I draw the line, maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people. I’m a Baptist, and I believe that each congregation is autonomous and can govern its own affairs. So if a local Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church does by the way, then that is fine. If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn’t require them to.
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