Jimmy Carter

=== Beliefs ===
From a young age, Carter showed a deep commitment to [[evangelical Christianity]].<ref name="NYT baptist">[[Somini Sengupta]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/21/us/carter-sadly-turns-back-on-national-baptist-body.html "Carter Sadly Turns Back on National Baptist Body"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217225008/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/21/us/carter-sadly-turns-back-on-national-baptist-body.html |date=December 17, 2014 }}, ''The New York Times'', October 21, 2000. Retrieved August 4, 2008.</ref><ref name="Balmer-2023">{{Cite web |last=Balmer |first=Randall |author-link=Randall Balmer |date=February 22, 2023 |title=Jimmy Carter Was America's Evangelical-in-Chief |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/22/jimmy-carter-foreign-policy-america-evangelical-christianity/ |access-date=March 16, 2023 |website=Foreign Policy |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1942, Carter became a [[deacon]] and taught Sunday school at Maranatha [[Baptist Church]] in Plains, Georgia.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last1=Burns|first1=Rebecca|date=June 1, 2016|title=Pilgrimage to Plains: The faithful come from around the world to hear Jimmy Carter preach|url=https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/pilgrimage-to-plains-jimmy-carter/|magazine=Atlanta Magazine|access-date=September 9, 2021|archive-date=October 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001115130/https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/pilgrimage-to-plains-jimmy-carter/|url-status=live}}</ref> At a private inauguration worship service, the preacher was Nelson Price, the pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church of Marietta, Georgia.<ref>Hobbs, Herschel H. and Mullins, Edgar Young. (1978). ''The Axioms of Religion''. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman Press. Revised edition. p. 22. {{ISBN|978-0-8054-1707-4}}.</ref> An evangelical Christian, Carter appealed to voters after the scandals of the [[Presidency of Richard Nixon|Nixon Administration]], and is credited with popularizing the term "[[born again]]" into American [[lexicon]] during the 1976 American presidential campaign.<ref name="Balmer-2023" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Burke |first=Daniel |date=May 20, 2021 |title=Evangelicals and the American Presidency |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/billy-graham-evangelicals-and-american-presidency/ |access-date=March 16, 2023 |website=[[PBS]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Haberman |first=Clyde |date=October 28, 2018 |title=Religion and Right-Wing Politics: How Evangelicals Reshaped Elections |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/us/religion-politics-evangelicals.html |access-date=March 16, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Green |first=Joshua |date=March 1, 2023 |title=How Evangelical Voters Swung From Carter to Trump |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-evangelical-voters-swung-from-carter-to-trump/2023/03/01/e43a7112-b833-11ed-b0df-8ca14de679ad_story.html |access-date=March 16, 2023 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> As president, Carter prayed several times a day, and professed that Jesus was the driving force in his life. He was greatly influenced by a sermon he had heard as a young man that asked: "If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"<ref>{{cite book |title=Conversations with Carter |isbn=978-1-55587-801-6 |year=1998 |page=14 |first1=Jimmy |last1=Carter |first2=Don |last2=Richardson |publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers}}</ref> In 2000, after the [[Southern Baptist Convention]] announced it would no longer permit women to become pastors, he renounced his membership, saying: "I personally feel that women should play an absolutely equal role in service of Christ in the church."<ref name="ABC baptist">{{cite news |title=Jimmy Carter Leaves Southern Baptists |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95311&page=1 |access-date=October 12, 2022 |work=ABC News |language=en}}</ref> He remained a member of the [[Cooperative Baptist Fellowship]].<ref name="NYT baptist" /> Carter's support for the [[Equal Rights Amendment]]<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.2014.24.1.100 | doi=10.1525/rac.2014.24.1.100 | title=The Politicization of Family Life: How Headship Became Essential to Evangelical Identity in the Late Twentieth Century | year=2014 | last1=Stasson | first1=Anneke | journal=Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation | volume=24 | pages=100–138 | s2cid=142760970 }}</ref> led many [[evangelical conservatives]] to leave the Democratic Party, contributing to the development of the [[Christian right]] in American politics.<ref>Ellis, Blake A. “An Alternative Politics: Texas Baptists and the Rise of the Christian Right, 1975-1985.” ''The Southwestern Historical Quarterly'', vol. 112, no. 4, 2009, pp. 361–86. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/30242432 JSTOR website] Retrieved May 5, 2023.</ref>