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When they prayed on the Sunday after Valentines Day, as on other Sundays, most of the women at Kings Way Reformed Church in the old mining town of Prescott, Ariz., wore dainty kerchiefs knotted over their hair to show devotion to God. Marybelle East, 36, wore hers all the time, she said seven days a week for him to see that I submit to his authority. Her husbands authority, that is.
Her 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.
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On social media, the pastor has attracted a following by posting incendiary commentary: railing against feminists, Catholics and gay people, describing immigration as national suicide, and labeling Islam and Hinduism demonic. He also calls for erasing womens suffrage, which he lists as one reason the world is falling apart.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/household-vote-women.html?
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They will pry my vote from my cold, dead hands!!
Pisces
(6,247 posts)Disaffected
(6,411 posts)it's probably better that they don't vote.
I have no interest in women who have no opinion
..dullards. In contrast, I love women who can engage in meaningful debate
..these are ladies who express their opinion by voting.
Peace ☮️
Disaffected
(6,411 posts)popsdenver
(2,313 posts)Almost without exception, all the Republican women I have ever talked to, all make the same statement..........
"I handle the house and the kids, My husband handles the money and politics.....I just vote for whoever he tells me....."
3catwoman3
(29,421 posts)Leave me and my vote the hell alone.
Bayard
(29,720 posts)Bettie
(19,706 posts)that's what abusers say right before they smack a woman or a girl...."You better stop running your mouth"!
My guess is that she learned that in the early days of her marriage and now just sits saliently while he berates her about whatever made-up grievance he has on any given day. Then, when he starts hitting her, she hides the bruises and apologizes to him afterward for making him angry.
Men like that don't believe "in god" they believe that they are god.
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,959 posts)SamKnause
(14,897 posts)hamsterjill
(17,581 posts)You don't want me to tell you what I'd do with women like that. The submission stuff is absolute bullshit in my book.
They will be prying my vote from my cold, dead hands, as well - and there may be a grenade clenched tight for a surprise.
EuterpeThelo
(364 posts)did not eat worms in jail for THIS bullshit right here. Why can't all these awful people just leave and go start their own country somewhere else and leave the rest of us the hell alone?!?!!
FakeNoose
(41,666 posts)It's the men who have totally F*d up this country.....
Am I right girls!?
patphil
(9,079 posts)The "world is falling apart" because of men like that pastor.