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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums5 Conservatives Who Are Still Mad That Women Have the Right to Vote
http://www.alternet.org/gender/5-conservatives-who-are-still-mad-women-have-right-vote1. Women's suffrage: Responsible for the evil that is Cam and Mitchell, the gay parents on "Modern Family."
Earlier this month, David Barton explained the origins of womens disenfranchisement in the United States. Now, Barton isnt just the founder of WallBuilders, an organization whose mission is "educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country." Barton also fancies himself a historian and has not only a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts University but an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Pensacola Christian College. Barton is responsible for discovering the (non-existent) causal correlation between banning school prayer and an increased rates of crime and alcoholism. So, we must take his historical analysis seriously. And his analysis reveals that our Founding Fathers' decision to deny women the vote in the Constitution had nothing to do with bigotry and everything to do with... you guessed it... god!
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2. Women cant be trusted, trust me! Im a woman.
Feminists will be thrilled to learn that women are just as capable of sexism as men. Take Janis Lane, a Central Mississippi Tea Party president, who rues the day the vote was granted to well her: Our country might have been better off if it was still just men voting. Why would our country benefit from the disenfranchisement of women? Because of the devil.
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3. I have a dream! That one day this nation will rise up and repeal voting rights for women.
One of the best thinkers/bigots of the right is John Derbyshire, who got fired from the National Review for his racist guide on how to keep yourself safe from black people. You know youre despicable when the National Review cans you for what it describes as "outlandish, nasty and indefensible" writing. Because he likes to state the obvious, Derbyshire has described himself as a homophobe and a racist. But he is being humble by omitting his sexist bona fides. For example, the homophobic, racist, sexist triple threat waxed poetic about his dreams and hopes for disenfranchisement during an interview with Alan Colmes: Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But Ill say thisif it were to be, I wouldnt lose a minutes sleep.
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4. "How female suffrage destroyed civilization.
Sometimes conservatives say something so inane, so obviously based on emotion and not reality, I find it hard to believe its not a liberal plant pretending to be conservative to discredit the movement. But, no, Ramzpaul was being serious when he wrote his blog post How Female Suffrage Destroyed Western Civilization. Ramzpaul, aka Paul Ray Ramsey, is a YouTube sensation, whose wit is evident in his websites motto: ram this. The Southern Poverty Law Center writes, with a small camera and a big grin, the lanky, bespectacled, 50-year-old father of two from suburban Tulsa, Okla., has emerged as the hottest right-wing video blogger this side of former Klansman David Duke.
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5 Conservatives Who Are Still Mad That Women Have the Right to Vote (Original Post)
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Jun 2014
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CTyankee
(63,912 posts)1. Thanks for highlighting these charming folks...we need to get the word out more to the
general public about them. The more this faction gets publicized, the worse EVERY Republican looks. Let's just hang this example around the neck of the GOP, hold them up to mockery and let normal people look at them and ask WTF...
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)2. Republicans exposed are strange and deluded people! n/t
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)3. They're probably still mourning the emancipation of slaves too. n/t
dawg
(10,624 posts)4. Lots of them think voting should be limited to males who own real estate.
Probably not a majority of tea partiers, but probably more than 25%.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)5. They were also responsible for the 18th amendment
but also had a hand in the 21st.