Likely Georgia Congressman Thinks Women Should Get Husbands’ Permission Before Entering Politics
Republicans in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District voted in Tuesday’s runoff election to nominate Baptist pastor and right-wing radio show host Jody B. Hice. While it will be difficult for run to the right of the seat’s outgoing occupant, Rep. Paul Broun (R), a review of Hice’s record and position suggest he may be uniquely positioned to do so.
Broun, who has spoken out about the dangers of science and boasted of being “the first Member of Congress to call” President Obama “a socialist who embraces Marxist-Leninist policies like government control of health care and redistribution of wealth,” is generally considered one of the most conservative members of Congress. But Hice’s stated anti-women, anti-Islam, and anti-LGBT views may actually place him to Broun’s ideological right.
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Hice thinks women shouldn’t enter politics unless they have their husband’s permission first. In a 2004 article flagged by Right Wing Watch on the growing number of female politicians, Hice argued that women should receive permission from their husband before running for office. “If the woman’s within the authority of her husband, I don’t see a problem,” Hice said. It’s unclear if he will express this view to his possible future colleagues Reps. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) and Kay Granger (R-TX), both of whom are divorced.
He doesn’t understand homosexuality or sarcasm. On his radio show, Hice has defended equal rights for gay and lesbian people — sort of. “Homosexuals have the right to be married,” he explained, “They just don’t have the right to be married to one another.” He likened same-sex marriage to graffiti and complained that LGBT advocates are “unreasonable” for trying to compare their struggle with the civil rights struggle of the 1960s: “You cannot change your race, but homosexuality is clearly not the same thing. Thousands and thousands of people have left the homosexual lifestyle.” In his book, he also made the stunning claim that there is a gay plot to recruit and sodomize children. His source: a satirical 1987 essay by Michael Swift. Omitting Swift’s preface that the essay is “an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor,” Hice selectively quoted him as saying, “We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together.”
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BWAHAHAHA
Only a Bible Belt mouth breather would come up with something like this.
