For most of his life, Jimmy Carter has been an advocate for human rights. In 1982, one year after leaving the Oval Office, the former US President and his wife Rosalynn Carter, founded the Carter Center, dedicated to advancing peace and health worldwide. Still an activist at 90, Carter has authored 28 books, including a new book in 2014 called, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power.
Over the years, Jimmy Carter, a devout Christian, has become a very strong proponent of women’s rights, to a point where he has spoken out against the falsehoods and extremism we see within the ‘religion’ of Christianity today. In 2009, he penned an open letter, severing ties with the mega SBC/Southern Baptist Convention, after being a member of the Convention for 60 years. Carter said the decision was difficult and painful, yet ‘unavoidable,’ after the Convention leaders chose to take bible verses out of context and claim ‘Eve’ was responsible to for ‘original sin,’ and thus all women must be subservient to men. In Carter’s aforementioned open letter, he expands on his reasons and concerns:
Always Question Authority 
Jimmy Carter set the standard for a noble post-POTUS life that no one else, regrettably, has followed. JC’s presidency was flawed by his being an essentially decent man in an indecent job. That, and the fallout from OPEC’s rebalancing of power in the global oil markets, AND, very possibly some Republican shenanigans in the Iran hostage crisis. ‘Jimmy’ tried to live the New Testatment life, the real NT life, not the imagined one spewing from the mouths of today’s American Christians and their politician stooges. Thanks Jimmy.