Utterly OUTRAGEOUS LTTE in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette TODAY

[BigDemVoter]

I am so flabbergasted & can't figure out if this is a deliberate joke or a "real" letter? You judge!

Arkansas Democrat Gazette: 04/25/2012

IT ALL STARTED WITH VOTE

"I wanted to comment on the letter sent in by Linda Farrell of Bella Vista and her comment about women voting.

The granting of the vote to women was the time women first began to get out of their places and out of their God-given roles as housewives and queens of their homes. This was one of the first great mistakes leading to the mess we have in this land today. The moral mess of busted families and many other things wrong in America started getting out of place way back there.

Now here in 2012 God knows how badly the train has gone off the tracks.

Women soon started cutting off their long hair, wearing men's clothes and looking like Jezebels soon after, in rebellion to God's word for them. Rebellion to God first, and man second. And the spiritually discerning person can witness the madness of this country and how it started with the granting of the vote to females.

America, your time is coming."

Written by David Sumrell (Springdale, AR)
------------------------------------------------
Could this person possibly be serious?????

[dems_rightnow]

1. It reads like an Onion piece....

... but I suspect it's real.

As an editor, I doubt I'd publish such a bizarre piece.

[Butterbean]

4. I agree, it's probably real. I have encountered quite a few people IRL who think that way.

[Whisp]

7. I'll bet Roseanne Barr is pulling our legs

I realize there are throwback knuckledraggers out there that truly believe what is in the OP, but I have a hunch this is a joke because it's written like one. I hope!

[patrice]

2. That's authentic. You can tell from the phrasing. Parody is slicker. nt

[MrScorpio]

3. He's serious

He hit all the fundie points in that letter. I know them when I see them.

Also, I wouldn't trust this guy around anyone's kids… Not even his own.

[madokie]

5. I have a neighbor who very well could have written this

so more than likely, yes this person is serious

[BigDemVoter]

6. I'm torn. . .

as I don't know whether to laugh or be terrified!

[Meiko]

10. Why would you be

terrified of an email from a nut job, laugh it off.

[LiberalArkie]

8. He is a Pentecostal or Holiness.. The tell is the "cutting off their long hair"

[jorno67]

9. He's from Springdale

Stay away from that area....only go as far as Fayetteville.

[Liberal Veteran]

11. Grow out your hair and bedress yourself modestly, you brazen strumpets!

It does read like a piece from the Onion.

I suppose it could be sarcasm, but these days, you never know.

[Odin2005]

12. Poe's Law.

I can't tell if these is serious or a joker trolling the paper.

[MineralMan]

13. I believe he thinks he's serious.

However, I think he's a moronic buffoon. Still, Poe's law makes it a close call.

[EC]

14. I think he's real

I found more of his writing at the 700 club http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/David_Sumrell_062507.aspx

[Fawke Em]

16. That guy is Greek Orthodox and

from Norfolk, VA - not Arkansas.

As a general rule, Greek Orthodox followers are not fundie-nuts who require women to keep their hair long. I think it's two different people.

[Fawke Em]

15. Why do men like this think that it's the woman's

fault that families get "busted" up?

I can't believe that any self-professed Christian would want another human being to be abused, cheated upon, witness to child abuse or a myriad of other reasons families "bust" up.

When divorce first became less frowned upon, many women left abusive and cheating husbands. I realize that, now, other less hurtful and/or life-threatening things are cited for divorce, but the "busting" up of families started when women could financially get away from abusive husbands (and I'm sure it works the other way around in some cases, too).

Oh... and one more thing. Humans didn't have houses when God first created them - they lived in a garden. How can my God-given role be as a housewife when there were no houses to wife in.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. It's real. David often voices his wisdom in that paper. I posted one of his

other letters here on DU2:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x916449

[cali]

18. what flabberghasts me is that anyone would be flabberghasted by

this letter. Doesn't surprise me in the tiniest bit.

[BigDemVoter]

19. I dunno. . .

Arkansas can be. . . . well. . . Arkansas. . . But it's not just a bunch of idiots; don't forget about Bill Clinton & J.W. Fulbright. . . . And UAMS is certainly world class, without a doubt.

[cali]

22. No, I didn't mean it as a slam against Arkansas. I read letters

like that from a particular person frequently in my local paper. I live in VT.

[bluestate10]

20. Looks real to me. But any ant has a higher IQ than the writer. nt

[deaniac21]

21. Most LTTE are crackpots. In the dem-gaz for sure.

[Thor_MN]

23. Why do I have no trouble believing

That the divorce record on the below page belongs to dear old Dave? I'm guessing that Mrs. Sumrell cut her hair and kicked him to the curb, probably when she decided that not all men were assholes.

http://www.whitepages.com/name/David-Sumrell/Arkansas

[LibertyLover]

24. I just finished reading "Quiverfull" and believe this letter to be as serious as a heart attack

The Quiverfull movement not only advocates Christian couples having as many children as possible, but the concept of "Headship". That's where the man is the leader of the family, the woman submits to him in all things, up to giving him her schedule for the day to see if it meets with his approval. Children are, of course, homeschooled, with daughters staying at home until they are given in marriage. They are supposed to learn the proper way to be mothers, wives and homemakers from their mothers. The daughters are taught to defer to any man in the family, including younger brothers, so that the boys learn early that they are to be submitted to by women. One of the things the book mentioned was the many Christians who practice this type of lifestyle believe that women should not vote and do not permit their women to vote. The Dominionists and Quiverfull people would like to repeal the 19th Amendment, among others. This letterwriter firmly believes all that he's written and more.

[Arkana]

25. Reads like one of the letters a local guy around me writes to our paper every so often.

He's an ultra-devout Catholic, though, so he comes at it from a different direction.

His nickname around town is "Dopey Jim".