What Do Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan and Desmond Tutu Have in Common?
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Check out this Web site by a group of international leaders calling themselves, The Elders.
OK, I get it. Even if the group includes former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, it's still a cocky name. But, there's some really interesting material on this site. And these people an incredibly gifted and credentialed group.
I'm especially pleased by their page on civil rights for women and girls worldwide. It reads in part:
Religion and tradition are a great force for peace and progress around the world. However, as Elders, we believe that the justification of discrimination against women and girls on grounds of religion or tradition, as if it were prescribed by a higher authority, is unacceptable. We believe that women and girls share equal rights with men and boys in all aspects of life.
This approach is spot on and in a very reasonable way it points the finger of blame at theocracy which abuses its power to violate the human rights of its women and girls.
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From RIS- More commands to "Accept God"
Law in the USA comes from federal and state Constitutions & their amendments. It is not supposed to come from mythic God or the Vatican and its Code of Canon Law. But Catholic Rep. Henry Hyde, pressured by Bishops, actually got the Constitution amended to ban using taxes for abortion. They did it after Roe v Wade made the civil government stop enforcing Canon 2350 that bans abortion. That law exists because the Vatican believes each conception has the potential to become a believer and then pay the enormous TEN PER CENT LIFETIME TITHE. It's $160,000 if a person pays 40 years on a steady annual income of $40,000. Some interfaith churches want that income so they join the pope in the demand for compulsory parenthood.
RIS seems to have no beloved female relatives who may want an abortion. Compulsory parenthood is slavery--legally removed from this nation at a cost of many liberty-loving lives. Prolife comments show those deaths were in vain when even one citizen wants to punish all sexual intercourse with parenthood.
If Half the So-Called Religious Right had 1% of These Guys' Religion and Sense of Responsibility ...
These three world leaders are champions of 'Walking the Walk' of their faiths and they have a record of accomplishments showing a real sense of responsibility with their religious faith.
Carter, America's original Born Again President, has demonstrated his religious convictions by being the most responsible past president ever. If he is willing to add his name to this group we can believe that they are a force of good that will get something done. Carter has earned his place as one of America's Elders and a man of conscience, especially in these days of political buffoons and an era of so many Elmer Gantry's on steroids.
Let's face it, if half of the American religious right wing wack-offs promenading for money were a fraction as responsible as anyone of these three men, the world would be a much better place.
What do they have in common?
They consider themselves 'Elders' under the criminal UN with its failed and corrupt assembly of stuffed shirts. Well they don't get to decide for me because we liberated women ages ago with an amendment to our constitution. And notice there is no mention of the Muslim's much loved sharia laws. That would have shown some real integrity. But the corrupt Globalistaz from the UN responsible for 'food for oil', misappropriated UNICEF money, and traffic jams in NYC want to tell the Judeo-Christian America of the founders, the true Elders. They want America to feel they are as bad as the 'cutthroats in dirty nightshirts'.
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