Roughly 80% of white evangelical voters have supported Donald Trump in the previous three presidential elections, and a significant percentage of those voters were white evangelical women. But there’s a movement afoot within those circles to prevent women from voting at all because their husbands should represent their entire family.
A recent New York Times article explores a small but growing movement of ultra-conservative Christians who fantasize about repealing the 19th Amendment and putting head scarves on women (while ironically railing against the dangers of “Sharia Law”).
One of the weak men leading this movement is TheoBro Dale Partridge, who runs King’s Way Reformed Church in Prescott, Arizona, where women are taught to be submissive to their husbands and men are told to… be more manly, I guess. And everyone plays their role perfectly:
[Marybelle East’s] head scarf is a physical reminder of biblical patriarchy, the kind of marriage the church preaches. “It keeps me from running my mouth,” she said.
To her and the other women, patriarchy also means ceding their political voices to their husbands. They believe America would be better off if women could not vote . . .
Continue @ Friendly Atheist.
No comments