Women 'Vote for Being Raped,' Should Lose Right, Christian Nationalist Pastors Argue
Pastors pray for an autocratic leader to abolish female suffrage. “We want to take women’s votes away because we love women.”
An autocratic figure needs to seize political power and take away the right of women to vote because, when left to their own devices, women “vote for being raped,” a trio of Christian nationalist pastors agreed in a recent podcast.
Pastor Joel Webbon, who heads what appears to be a well-funded podcast operation near Austin, Texas, posted his conversation online last week with Arizona Pastor Dale Partridge and far-right British cleric Father Calvin Robinson.
The conversation is part of a highly controversial video series produced by Webbon’s NXR Studios. NXR is short for “New Christian Right.”
“We want to take women’s votes away because we love women, right?” said Robinson, whose extreme views have led to him becoming a religious figure repeatedly in search of a denomination willing to accept him.
“And we love our society, and we want to be providing and protecting for women, right? Not because we hate them.”
“Right,” agreed Webbon, a Reformed Baptist pastor who leads Covenant Bible Church in Georgetown, Texas.
“It’s because we love women—and we know that when women can vote, they vote for being raped.”
WHAT?
Did he really say what I thought he said—women “vote for being raped”? Unable to process such a horrific declaration, I have replayed it again and again, posted it here online, and still have not been able to stop checking what my ears told me.
Webbon did not explain how he reached that startling conclusion. Neither Robinson nor Partridge disputed his suggestion.
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Instead Partridge, a Reformed pastor who leads Kings Way Reformed Church in Prescott, Arizona, argued that women are “easily manipulated by evil men.”
“You want to get to my wife, you have to go through me,” Partridge said. “You’re not going to get her emotions manipulated. You are going to have to manipulate my emotions, and I’m less likely to be manipulated.”
He continued, “That’s the threat, is that they can’t control men the way they can control women—which is they reason why they want the women vote.”
‘We gotta take the vote from them’
The podcast reflects an increasingly popular view in Christian nationalist circles that female suffrage was a fundamental misstep in American history, and they are determined to put men into power who will turn back the clock.
In fact, Robinson argued that taking away women’s right to vote—through whatever means necessary—was critical to defeating feminism.
“That means that men have to stand up and take ownership again, take responsibility again,” he continued. “It means we can’t wait for women to say, ‘We don’t want to vote anymore.’ We’ve gotta take the vote from them.”
Webbon agreed he did not “see any path aside from the full removal of feminism.”
“As long as we have democracy, coupled with universal suffrage, you’ll constantly be going against the grain,” he continued. “You’re constantly going to have half of the population voting for temperance, tolerance, suicidal empathy.”
The question, they agreed, was how to accomplish their patriarchal vision for America—because women would never acquiesce to being disenfranchised.
“I don’t think you’re going to get people to vote away democracy,” Webbon said.
Robinson interjected, “But it does happen.”
“It can,” Webbon agreed.
“But my point is that … I think that it has to be taken. I think that men—virtuous, ambitious, masculine men—have to climb the ladder of power and forcefully take away from the people that which is [to] their detriment.”
Webbon has predicated that Christian nationalists will take over the Republican Party by 2032.
Asked for a model for America, Robinson pointed to Germany’s Weimar Republic, where Adolf Hitler was democratically elected and then seized power.
‘Social media is not good for women’
Comparing social media to the Crusades of the Middle Ages, Dale Partridge also argued men should be on X because “this is basically the newspaper of the day” and “when you get to see what’s happening around the world, it will red-pill you.”
Women, on the other hand, should avoid such online platforms because they are too weak to process the battles taking place online, Partridge insisted.
“We are talking about the public square, and we are in a fight for ideological, theological warfare—and it’s not the place in most circumstances for women to be out there,” the Arizona pastor added.
“We don’t see it in the Scriptures, we don’t see it throughout history, and all of a sudden we see it in mass now.”
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The only potential good from women being on social media, Partridge insisted, would be if they confined themselves to looking for recipes, advice on “how to be a submissive, joyful wife,” or “older women teaching younger women how to love their husbands and how to love their children.”
“Outside of that, the vast majority of social media is not good for women,” he added. “It’s a place of gossip, it’s a place of warfare, it’s a place of temptation, it’s a place of comparison.”
Robinson added, “And all that happens is men fall into that, and men become gossips, and men become tempted, and men become effeminate.”
Tip of the iceberg
Of course, such controversies are not new to Joel Webbon, who has argued:
“Those of Jewish descent are generally marked by subversion, deceit, and greed.” The “leading cause of antisemitism” continues to be Jewish behavior. Jews should not be allowed to hold public office in America.
Nick Fuentes was justified in mocking the Holocaust “because Holocaustianity has been weaponized as a false religion to ensure that White people cannot have a country.” The Holocaust was “probably not as bad as we’ve been told,” and Hitler probably “didn’t even know” about it all.
Gender equality is part of a Jewish plot to “eradicate White people.”
Women should be put to death for making false sexual assault allegations, claiming “#MeToo would end real fast” if that occurred.
”There are not enough Black men in America, Christian men who know enough theology to be qualified to pastor Black churches.” As a result, Black Americans need to “go find a good, God-fearing White church” to attend.
If Christians are “not being called a Nazi, an antisemite, a racist, a misogynist, and a bigot, then they are not simply not fighting hard enough.”
And the list could go on and on and on.
‘What worries me about Christian nationalism’
Such Christian nationalist notions, religious scholar Bradley Onishi recently told me, go to the heart of the danger that Christian nationalism poses to democracy.
While some view the movement as “just loving God and loving country,” Onishi argued that most Christian nationalists believe “I think I should get more of a vote and more of a say than you.”
“That’s what worries me about Christian nationalism more than anything,” he concluded. (You can watch the full interview below.)