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Conservative Christian Calls For Banning Women From Voting (AUDIO)
Author: Stephen D. Foster Jr. May 2, 2014 2:47 pm
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But in the present day, there are still people who want to repeal it and once again ban women from exercising voting rights in America. One such individual is David Barton. Barton is the founder of Wallbuilders, an organization that seeks to destroy the separation of church of state. He also pretends to be a historian and hangs out with Glenn Beck. On Thursday, the conservative Christian openly called for taking voting rights away from women because women voting supposedly damages society and culture.
See what he did there? Barton claims that families voted as a unit during the colonial era and then goes on to say that men are biblically mandated to be the head of the household. In short, hes saying that women should get married and trust their husbands to vote on their behalf. Heres where that logic completely falls apart.
Conservatives want to stop women from voting because they vote for Democrats.
In the 2012 Election, Republican presidential wannabe Mitt Romney won the married men vote by 22 percentage points. On the other hand, he only won the married women vote by a mere 7 points. Clearly, their were many wives who chose to vote for President Obama against the wishes of their husbands on that Election Day. The biggest rejection of the GOP that year came from single women with 67 percent voting for Obama and only 31 percent for Mitt Romney.
more/audio at link:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/05/02/barton-hates-women/
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Brainstormy
(2,381 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)SamKnause
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doesn't care what you think.
Maybe it is time for old, white, rich, "religious" men to lose their rights to vote !!!!!
They have certainly done a dismal job of running things to date.
I guess David Barton will be calling for the reinstatement of slavery in his next sermon.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)to vote me ME???? Hell, NO. Incidentally, my Grandma was a Suffragette. I have a very old picture of her marching for the right to vote.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)I suspect Christianist historians will burn those pictures in the future so we don't know anyone ever believed such nonsense.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)newfie11
(8,159 posts)This old hippy would love to have a one on one chat with this moron.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)sisters transferred to a state where he is allowed to advise on the school curriculum. Big Business moves female employees to states where their rights are threatened, just so they can get some tax breaks.
He was allowed to rewrite the Texas scholastic history books to call slavery the Atlantic Triangular trade and to include Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin as "Enlightenment Philosophers"
The GOP considers this guy respectable even though he doesn't believe their daughters and wives should vote.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Thx for that info on this pos.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)republicans win every time.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)But I can tell you from first hand experience that when I was registering voters in NW Virginia, I encountered a number of households where women weren't registered because their husbands wouldn't let them. Usually it was the guy who stated that his wife didn't need to vote because he voted for the both of them but there were times that the women said that as well; in the latter cases, it was always with the husband hovering in the background, making sure she gave the right answer. One time I got the brushoff from a nasty man whose wife cowered, half-hidden against the door jamb to the kitchen. We made eye contact and I could see this was not what the woman herself wanted but she was afraid. Folks, if anyone thinks this doesn't happen here you are mistaken. I've seen it.
betterdemsonly
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If he is really reflecting his wife's wishes, he is reducing the potential electorate for which ever candidate he supports by half.
toby jo
(1,269 posts)luxuries behind, and get their great lives on.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)In your ideal world where all women marry and their wonderful loving husbands vote for them, what happens if the man dies and the woman is widowed? Does she then get to vote for herself?
I'm not even going to ask him about the real world most of us live in in which many women are on their own for at least part of their adult lives. Take me. I didn't get married until I was 32. Marriage lasted 25 years, then ended in divorce, nearly six years ago now. I live again by myself, quite happily, thank you for asking.
As it happens my ex was a pretty good guy, very much liked it that I was independent in my thinking. We are both very progressive/liberal Democrats. We generally voted for the same people, but that was because we saw things the same way, not because he told me how to vote.
If I were to somehow marry someone who was a Republican, I would make absolutely certain I'd vote independently, although I can't imagine a man like that being willing to spend much time with me, let alone marry me. Nor would I want to be with someone who wasn't essentially on the same page as me.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)when you have idiots like this.
Archae
(46,345 posts)Even his publisher, a Christian book distributor, pulled his "Jefferson Diaries" book since it had so many lies and inaccuracies in it.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/search/node/barton%20type:blog
Initech
(100,102 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Maybe he can have the privilege of sitting the room with American women. Until then he needs to go and play in traffic on a very b uh sy street. It is "We the people" not some manless worm who wants to control the major of the population. He is someone who needs to wear a burka.