In an interview with HuffPost Live Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter said that gay marriage has never presented a a conflict with his faith:
“That's no problem with me. I think everybody should have a right to get married regardless of their sex. The only thing I would draw line on, I wouldn't be in favor of the government being able to force a local church, congregation to perform gay marriages if they didn't want to. But those two partners should be able to go to a local courthouse or to a different church and get married. That's no problem.”
When asked about whether Jesus would have approved of gay marriage, Carter commented,
“I believe he would, I don't have any verse in scripture…I believe Jesus would approve of gay marriage, but that's just my own personal belief. I think Jesus would encourage any love affair if it was honest and sincere and was not damaging to anyone else, and I don't see that gay marriage damages anyone else.”
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