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A major reason he never successfully  made a difference in the Middle East and why the Iran Hostage Crisis lingered. He believed that thugs and terrorists were people who would do the right thing if given the chance.

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: Adviser breaks with Carter on Mideast book.

The Emory University professor, who teaches Middle Eastern history and political science, said he picked up a copy of Carter’s latest book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” last week. After reading it, he decided to resign.

Stein bluntly criticized the book in a letter to Carter, Emory President Jim Wagner and John Hardman, the Carter Center’s current executive director.

“President Carter’s book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analysis; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments,” Stein wrote. “Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book.”

Powerline has more. And at Huffington Post, Alan Dershowitz details many of the errors he found in Carter’s “indecent book.”

Not it seems that President Carter has revealed his own hand and explains much about his character. Does this explain his great tolerance for wicked men?

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Canada effectively killed opposition to same sex marriage for now. Meanwhile in the US the issue isn’t finalized but they are pushing for the same victory here.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially declared the same-sex marriage issue settled Thursday after MPs handily defeated a motion to revisit a 2005 law allowing gays and lesbians to wed.

“The result was decisive,” Harper told reporters only minutes after the Commons voted 175-123 against his minority government’s bid to introduce legislation to restore the traditional definition of marriage.

“I don’t see reopening this question in the future.”

Thirteen Conservatives, including six cabinet ministers, garnered applause on the opposition benches when they broke with the government by rejecting the motion.

Rejected in Canada the east coast and west coast continue to press for change. Here is the latest from New Jersey.

TRENTON, N.J. –A state Assembly committee approved a bill Thursday that would allow gay couples the benefits of marriage — but not the title – in a move that places the measure on a track for possible approval by the end of the year.

The 4-2 approval of the civil unions bill came over the objections of each of the dozens of people who testified in an emotional three-hour hearing Thursday before the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

In a debate that centered more on the significance of the word “marriage” than the details of the bill, opposition came from both gay rights advocates and social conservatives.

Gay couples and their supporters were upset that the measure creates a new classification for couples that stops short of marriage. The word matters, they say, because marriage is universally recognized and need not be explained the way civil unions would.

People can do whatever they please in their bedroom and no one really cares or knows for that matter. This isn’t about sex. This is about the demolition of the historical definition of marriage and the fundamental importance it plays in society. A person could secretly have a significant other who is a squirrel for all I care. But don’t ask society to define that relationship as a marriage.

The battle may be over for now in Canada but the fight to expand traditional marriage in the United States still is up in the air. However the victories for marriage expansion are beginning to help give the expansion traction.