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“To repeat myself in a way, I think that what the major religious leaders say is used by others who discriminate against women as justification for their human-rights abuse. For instance, if an employer, who might be otherwise enlightened, if he is a religious person and he sees that, he might be a Catholic, and a Catholic does not let women be priests, then why should he pay his women employees an equal pay [as men]?” — Jimmy Carter outdoing even Miss Utah, who famously flubbed her answer when asked during the Miss USA pageant to explain why even women who are primary earners “continue to earn less than men.” In an interview with Time magazine, Carter explains that the Catholic church’s teaching against ordaining women as priests leads to lower pay for women

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