Blue Truck, Red State: In Memoriam: President Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024

Sunday, December 29, 2024

In Memoriam: President Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024

Prezident Spojených štátov amerických od roku 1977 do 1981

Official portrait, 1977

Former President Jimmy Carter died today at his home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 100. He was a fine man who set a fine example for all other presidents, in or out of office. May God rest his soul.

And then there's Mr. Carter's longtime suport for gay rights.

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2 comments:

Frank said...: We've gone from Carter, a man who took his faith seriously and lived out his convictions and values to a man who is the very antithesis of Jimmy Carter. I hope that his legacy will shake up this nation to take a better path.; December 29, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Russ Manley said...: Amen to that.; December 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu