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

[hue]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/01/christian-historian-allowing-women-to-vote-hurts-the-entire-culture-and-society/

A so-called “historian” who Glenn Beck hired to teach at his online university insisted this week that women had originally been denied the right to vote “to keep the family together,” and for the good of “the entire culture and society.”

On the Thursday broadcast of Wallbuilders Live, David Barton explained that biblical principles — and not sexism — were behind not allowing women to vote prior to 1920.

“So family government precedes civil government and you watch that as colonists came to America, they voted by families,” he said. “And you have to remember back then, husband and wife, I mean the two were considered one. That is the biblical precept… 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.”

Barton argued that in the time since the women’s suffrage movement succeeded in the United States, “we’ve moved into more of a family anarchy kind of thing.”

“[T]he bigotry we’re told they held back then, they didn’t hold,” he said. “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.”

[shenmue]

1. This twit...

I say we send him on an experimental trip to Mars. Soon.

[aquart]

2. Not well versed in early (original) Christian history and practice, is he?

[intaglio]

3. I Posted the same thing in HoF

Link Yet more nonsense from David Barton

An excerpt:

...It took me an entire 5 minutes of Googling using a famous internet search engine to prove him wrong.

Lydia Taft 1756 Massachusetts - voted

New Jersey 1776, voters only needed property valued at £50. Voters were referred to as he or she in the State Constitution.

Wyoming 1860, women have the vote hence the state's nickname "The Equality State". 1870 Louisa Ann Swain voted in a national election in Wyoming

1865 the 14th Amendment, the first time "Male" is used in the Constitution to describe voters.

1869 Utah (FFS the Mormon State) allowed women to vote in national elections it was not until 1887 that Congress disenfranchised Utah women as a punishment for Utah's endorsement of polygamy. After the LDS disavowed polygamy the State Constitution (approved 1895) endorsed womens suffrage in 1895 and Utah got full states rights in 1896.

[sofa king]

4. Heh heh heh.

And then the fellow took a bite of his tobacco plug and marched off for the next town, whistling and playing hoop and stick, while the America that women helped to build, flashed by him at the speed of light, using quantum physics, solar and nuclear power, jets, rockets, satellites and electric cars, agrarian techniques tenfold improved, and of course the Internet...

... all of which were created with the help of voting female American citizens.

Seriously, it's time to physically demonstrate why living according to the Bible is so great, you knuckle dragging trolls! Go and fucking do it. Go and subdue the damned earth and overgraze your goats and treat your women like shit and enslave those you can catch and see how many days you can last out there pulling that stupid shit. See if it pleases God.

[PatrickforO]

5. I am having difficulty stopping laughing

This guy's GOT to be kidding!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. Husband and wife were considered one -- that's from Sir William Blackstone.

He wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England.

Please read this page written in 1765:

http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/lives19th/a/blackstone_law.htm

Women in Texas, which is a progressive state (community property) due to Spanish law, through 1965, had to go to court to get their disabilities of couverture removed, that is so they could buy and sell real property in their own name. Their husband was considered their baron or protector; and that was from English law and Blackstone.