2012 Presidential Election

“Thank God for Jimmy Carter. He takes on the tough ones.” That's how “On Faith” moderator Sally Quinn ended her April 26 post “Does God hate women?” Quinn insisted that it was “a question that never occurred to me until I began to study religion” and that the 39th president of the United States had a role in her examining the topic: Recently Jimmy Carter spoke on the subject at a religious conference. “The discrimination against women on a global basis,” he said,” is very often attributable to the declaration by religious leaders in Christianity, Islam and other religions, that women are inferior in the eyes of God.”