Jimmy Carter: A Sunday Interview

Elizabeth Dias of TIME interviews former President Jimmy Carter, covering topics from the war in Syria to religion’s role in promoting equality for women. “I think there’s a slow, very slow, move around the world to give women equal rights in the eyes of God,” he said. “What has been the case for many centuries is that the great religions, the major religions, have discriminated against women in a very abusive fashion and set an example for the rest of society to treat women as secondary citizens.”

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