Idaho
Ah yes, convicted rapist Trump is the hero of the women-hating evangelicals.
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, recently shared a video in which several pastors say women should no longer be allowed to vote, prompting one progressive evangelical organization to express concern.
Hegseth reposted a CNN segment on X on Thursday that focuses on pastor Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist who co-founded the Idaho-based Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), In the segment, he raises the idea of women not voting.
Another pastor interview by CNN for its segment, Toby Sumpter, said: “In my ideal society, we would vote as households. I would ordinarily be the one to cast the vote, but I would cast the vote having discussed it with my household.”
A congregant interviewed for the segment remarked that she considers her husband as the head their household, and added: “I do submit to him.”
Hegseth reposted the nearly seven-minute report with the caption: “All of Christ for All of Life.”
Men have households, you see, and women are part of the staff of those households. Men are the owners and women are the servants. That’s how Mister God arranged it so who are you to do it some other blasphemous way?
I would like to think that the “at least Trump knows what a woman is” women are having a moment of self-reflection but who am I kidding.
On the other hand, if they really want to limit themselves to one vote per household, who are we to object? It doesn’t sound like a winning electoral strategy.
Christ can have Kegsbreath…
What a Maroon, he might be thinking of multiple generation households which he believes are more common in the demographics which vote for people who aren’t him. Or even: call a tenement building or apartment block ‘one household’, and dozens of voters suddenly no longer exist.
I wish I could say this surprises me, but it doesn’t. I’ve been hearing it for decades, but now the regressive ideas have a large platform. It’s not just Twitter (X), which was a huge platform to begin with. Now they have the White House.
tigger,
Of course I’m assuming that everyone in the household (however it’s defined) would vote for the same (noxious) candidate given the chance. In which case, may the household be large, and the votes few.
WaM, that isn’t a given. In my youth, the household I grew up in was split (along gender lines, to be sure). The men all voted solidly Republican; the women all voted loyally Democrat. My mother never voted for a Republican until Ronald Reagan; my dad never voted for a Democrat. Us kids broke pretty much the same way, except my older sister and my younger brother, who broke the pattern.
When women got the vote, a lot of men assumed it was giving them a second vote, but some wives and some kids do not vote the way they are told to. That’s the beauty of the secret ballot.
Voting by households leaves an awful lot of single moms, lesbians, professional women, and elder cat ladies with the votes for their female-headed households.
Checkmate, theists!
I often loudly rant at my wife about whatever local politician or ordinance I’m voting for or against and then immediately follow it with some aside to the effect “but you vote your conscience/don’t just follow my lead”.
Should I be doing that?
BKiSA, if she is a strong, independent woman, she doesn’t need the aside, she’ll vote how she wants anyway. If she isn’t, the aside probably won’t help.
Hope this doesn’t muddy the issue further for you. ;-)