Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women

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45. Didn't he already do this? Nearly twelve years ago?

This article is dated October 23, 2000

Jimmy Carter says he can
'no longer be associated' with the SBC

By Greg Warner
Associated Baptist Press

ATLANTA (ABP)--Former President Jimmy Carter, Southern Baptists' most famous layman, says he feels "excluded" by the Southern Baptist Convention and "can no longer be associated" with the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

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But in a letter and press statement released Oct. 19 (2000), Carter lamented the new "creedal" direction taken by the SBC. He said the recent changes in the Baptist Faith & Message doctrinal statement are "profound and revolutionary" and reflect "an increasingly rigid SBC creed."

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"But since that brief interlude of apparent harmony, I have been disappointed and feel excluded by the adoption of policies and an increasingly rigid SBC creed, including some provisions that violate the basic premises of my Christian faith. I have finally decided that, after 65 years, I can no longer be associated with the Southern Baptist Convention."

Source: Baptist Standard

As a non-believer, I have a tremendous respect for President Carter, who consistently shows more moral courage than almost any politician I can think of. But it appears as though he's done this before.