Christian ‘historian’: Allowing women to vote ‘hurts the entire culture and society’

You would think that in the 4000+ years of human existence there would be some sort of precept against lying. Oh. wait there is!!

Beck U professor David "I create my own HIStory" Barton has once again managed to ignore genuine history. He recently opened his mouth and out tumbled misogynistic psycho-babble he calls history.

The family was the first and fundamental unit of all government. Actually, you have individual self government first, then you have family government second, you have civil government third, and have church government fourth. Those are the four levels of government in the order they are given in the Bible.

So family government precedes civil government and you watch that as colonists came to America, they voted by families. You look at the Pilgrims, when they finally moved away from socialism and moved toward the free enterprise system, they called the families together and gave families plots of land. Private property given to the families. And so that’s the way things work.

And you have to remember back then, husband and wife, I mean the two were considered one. That is the biblical precept. That is the way they looked at them in the civil community. That is a family that is voting and so the head of the family is traditionally considered to be the husband and even biblically still continues to be so …

Now, as we’ve moved away from the family unit – you need to be independent from the family, don’t be chained down and be a mother and don’t be chained down and be a father and don’t be chained down to your parents, you know, we’ve moved into more of a family anarchy kind of thing, the ‘Modern Family’ kind of portrayal – that understanding has gone away.

Clearly, what [the listener] has asked is a brilliant question because it does reveal that the bigotry we’re told they held back then, they didn’t hold and what they did was they put the family unit higher than the government unit and they tried to work hard to keep the family together. And, as we can show in two or three hundred studies since then, the more you weaken the family, the more it hurts the entire culture and society.

So they had a strong culture, a strong society and it was based on a strong family to preceded government and they crafted their policies to protect a strong family.

As much as I would like to dissect this garbage, there is only one name I will mention, Lydia Taft, who in 1756 became the first legal woman voter in colonial America. And yes there is more evidence of pre-Revolution women voters.

Barton's blatant Biblical patriarchy aside, there is a danger in what this man preaches and teaches, depriving one group the right to vote will never satisfy him or his ilk. (And if you have read my diatribes enough you know who the "ilk" are.)

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.” (Martin Niemoeller, 1892 - 1984)

If they're successful in depriving women of their right to vote, who then becomes their next target? Gays? Asians? Catholics? What about the 99 "percenters"? They will keep going until only those they deem "worthy" of the right to vote are able to vote.

This man is dangerous, and those who listen to and believe him, I have one question for you. Will you be deemed worthy?

Christian ‘historian’: Allowing women to vote ‘hurts the entire culture and society’