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Matthew Ellard wrote:

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Anon wrote: What do you guys think?

When the Asian Tsunami hit Aceh in Indoneasia, Jimmy Carter and George Bush Snr both went to assist reconstruction. There was a lovely Australian newsreport that Jimyy Carter standing infront of a line of Indonesian workers passing grain sacks. Onje of the men was wearing an Osama Bin Laden T-shirt. It was obvious that Jimmy Carter could see it. I assume Jimmy Carter did not ask the man to remove it or hide it from camera. I assume he is a pragmatic tolerant man who just happens to be a christian. I'd open a door for him.

It's a good that he apparently didn't try to stop the man from wearing his shirt (as offensive as it might be). And I think "pragmatic tolerant" is a good description for him. But I don't think he should mischaracertize the Bible. If he came out and said there were some good verses and some bad verses, and I choose to follow the good ones, that would be different. I disagree with his assertion that you have to carefully pick and choose verses to make it seem like women aren't equal with men in the Bible. The verses claiming equality are very much in the minority.

He also took the Southern Baptist leaders to task for something that actually is in the Bible:

"the convention's leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be "subservient" to their husbands"

If you read the 1st creation account in Genesis 1, then it sounds like women and men were created at the same time. But if you read at Genesis 2-3, then it's clear that Eve was created second to Adam, that Eve is blamed for original sin, that she's subservient to Adam. If Carter doesn't believe this, just like I don't, then he should say these are verses he doesn't believe, or that they contradict the previous chapter, not make it sound like the convention was claiming something that wasn't there.