The Patriot Post® · Jimmy Carter's Moment of Truth

There’s not much for conservatives to agree on with former president Jimmy Carter, but his insight on religious liberty and federalism is a sentiment that can resonate with every American who believes in Rule of Law. “If Texas doesn’t want to have gay marriage, then I think that’s a right for Texas people to decide,” he told ABC affiliate WFAA. Carter added, “I don’t think that the government ought ever to have the right to tell a church to marry people if the church doesn’t want to.” Indeed, regardless of one’s opinion in the marriage debate, the federal government’s encroachment is unconstitutional, as specified in the Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The 39th president, we’re surprised to say, has this one right. More…