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When Jimmy Carter was president from 1977 to 1981, gays and lesbians were unable to obtain government security clearance, same-sex intimacy was illegal in at least two dozen states and gay ...
Although Carter was personally opposed to abortion, he supported legalized abortion after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113 (1973). [2] Early in his term as governor, Carter had strongly supported family planning programs including abortion to save the life of a woman, birth defects, or in other extreme circumstances.
On the campaign trail in 1976, irked at criticism from the liberal dreamboat, Carter let fly with "I'm glad I don't have to kiss Teddy Kennedy's ass to win the nomination," a quote that made the ...
Carter was the first president to address the topic of gay rights, and his administration was the first to meet with a group of gay rights activists. [ 129 ] [ 130 ] Carter opposed the Briggs Initiative , a California ballot measure that would have banned gays and supporters of gay rights from being public school teachers. [ 130 ]
On January 6, 2021, following the U.S. Capitol attack, along with the other three still living former presidents, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, [434] Jimmy Carter denounced the attack, releasing a statement saying that he and his wife were "troubled" by the events, also stating that what had occurred was "a national tragedy ...
“I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times,” Carter said, a quote that Playboy published weeks before the 1976 general election. ... Georgia, on February 21, 2023. - Jimmy Carter, the ...
Openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk and Sally Miller Gearhart, as well as many other gay and lesbian activists of the time were instrumental in fighting the measure. Opposition to the proposition from a variety of public figures such as then former California Governor Ronald Reagan to President Jimmy Carter helped to swing public ...
Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer who vowed to restore morality and truth to politics after an era of White House scandal and who redefined post-presidential service, died ...