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

David Edwards
Raw Story
Thu, 01 May 2014 11:47 UTC

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."

Read the rest of the article and listen to Barton here.

Comment: Funny that people like Barton can't consider the idea that certain 'biblical principles' are inherently sexist!