From Bill Donahue
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
On March 22, NPR flagged this comment by Jimmy Carter:
“The fact that the Catholic Church, for
instance, prohibits women from serving as priests or even deacons gives a
kind of a permission to male people all over the world, that well, if
God thinks that women are inferior, I’ll treat them as inferiors. If she
is my wife, I can abuse her with impunity, or if I’m an employer, I can
pay female employees less salary.”
Carter said practically the same thing
on Charlie Rose on March 24 (it was reaired last night), and on MSNBC’s
“Morning Joe” on March 24.
Bill Donohue commented today on Carter’s accusation:
So many women have been beaten, gang
raped, tortured, and murdered in Islamic nations—it is a daily
occurrence in the Sudan—that it would take the most advanced computers
to run a tally. Moreover, there is no penalty for doing so. The barbaric
practice of female genital mutilation—nowhere sanctioned by
Catholicism—has been visited on hundreds of millions of Muslim women.
Why is this so? Because the Catholic Church doesn’t ordain women.
Carter’s scorecard on women appointees,
it turns out, stinks to high heaven. When he became president, he
appointed 13 cabinet officers; three were women. He appointed 18 women
to cabinet and cabinet level positions; his predecessor, Gerald Ford,
who was in office for only two-and-a-half years, appointed 22 women. Of
the 5 members of Carter’s White House staff, one was a woman. He
appointed 259 judges to the federal bench, and 15.8 percent were women.
So according to Carter’s logic, if the
Catholic Church is responsible for women being abused across the globe
because it doesn’t ordain women, then he is a co-conspirator in these
crimes. Which raises the question: Why is Jimmy Carter walking around a
free man?
The Catholic League is the nation’s
largest Catholic civil rights organization. Founded in 1973 by the late
Father Virgil C. Blum, S.J., the Catholic League defends the right of
Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public
life without defamation or discrimination.
Motivated by the letter and the spirit
of the First Amendment, the Catholic League works to safeguard both the
religious freedom rights and the free speech rights of Catholics
whenever and wherever they are threatened.
The Catholic League is listed in the Official Catholic Directory and has won the plaudits of many bishops.
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