Jimmy Carter's shock 'adultery' admission to Playboy magazine

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77% : In attendance were President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden and former President and first lady Bill and Hillary Clinton - as well as past first ladies Melania Trump, Michelle Obama and Laura Bush.
41% : Jimmy Carter shocked those who largely knew him as a devoted husband and Christian when he admitted to feelings of 'lust' and committing 'adultery many times in my heart' during an interview with Playboy magazine in 1976.
41% : Presidents Trump, Obama, Clinton, Carter and Biden are all pictured at George H.W. Bush's 2018 funeralBut the Navy veteran's dedication to philanthropy meant he quickly became one of the most beloved figures in American politics.
33% : Jimmy Carter shocked those who largely knew him as a devoted husband and Christian when he admitted to feelings of 'lust' and committing 'adultery many times in my heart' in a 1976 Playboy interview'Ahead of the 1976 election, an interview for the spicy magazine with journalist Robert Scheer, in Carter's words, 'nearly cost me the election'He said he believed in 'absolute and total separation of church and state' and explained his faith as rooted in humility, not judgment of others.
21% : Quoting Matthew 5:27-28, Carter explained that Jesus Christ considered an offending thought equivalent to consummated adultery, and by that standard, he was in no position to judge a man who 'shacks up' and 'screws lots of women,' because he had 'looked on many women with lust' and, thus, 'committed adultery many times in my heart.'Headline writers, satirists and late-night television pounced anyway, labeling it Carter's 'lust in my heart' interview.
13% : And, no, she never worried about his fidelity'The only lust I worried about was that of the press,' First Lady Carter (pictured with Donald Trump in 1987) wrote in 1984, recounting how her discipline finally cracked when a reporter asked whether she ever committed adultery.
10% : With Carter's death, there are now only five living presidents - Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, now President-elect Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden.

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