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Thu May 1, 2014, 05:23 PM May 2014

David "fake historian" Barton says women shoudn't never have been aloowed to vote...



Barton: Not Allowing Women To Vote Was Designed 'To Keep The Family Together'

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 5/1/2014 1:57 pm

On today's episode of "WallBuilders Live," David Barton explained that women were not given the right to vote when the Constitution was written because the Founding Fathers were trying to protect the institution of the family by giving every "family" a right to vote through the male head of the household.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barton-not-allowing-women-vote-was-designed-keep-family-together#sthash.0HDuYOKy.dpuf
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David "fake historian" Barton says women shoudn't never have been aloowed to vote... (Original Post) Archae May 2014 OP
Like me voting Democrat HockeyMom May 2014 #1
Exactly Warpy May 2014 #3
What a crock of crap........... Swede Atlanta May 2014 #2
Well, to be fair, David Barton is a terrorist who hates America randys1 May 2014 #4
Give the family a vote, so a 17 member family has the same power as a 3 member family? ck4829 May 2014 #5
The flaw in the Constitution... HooptieWagon May 2014 #6
No the flaw is that it allows his "speeches" on history. nt okaawhatever May 2014 #12
Only Glenn Beck would consider this idiot to be a historian Gothmog May 2014 #7
You don't have to be an historian to debunk nonsense. GeorgeGist May 2014 #8
"WallBuilders Live" - as in "building a dangerous wall between men and women"? (nt) muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #9
What's his DU name? LeftyMom May 2014 #10
They just say the most outrageous things they can tink of Crunchy Frog May 2014 #11

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
3. Exactly
Thu May 1, 2014, 05:29 PM
May 2014

Or voting straight Democratic and lying to him about it later. Since it's none of his business, it's one of those things that deserves a lie.

It all works.

 

Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)
2. What a crock of crap...........
Thu May 1, 2014, 05:28 PM
May 2014

The reason women weren't given the right to vote was because at the time women were viewed as little more than property. Throughout the Declaration of Independence and other documents from that period there is reference to all "men" are created equal. They don't use the term "people", "citizens", etc. They specifically use the term "men".

That was the cultural standard at the time. By the same token they considered that slaves were to be counted as 3/5 of a person for purposes of the census and Congressional apportionment.

There was no "family" concept as David Barton suggests.

ck4829

(34,977 posts)
5. Give the family a vote, so a 17 member family has the same power as a 3 member family?
Thu May 1, 2014, 05:33 PM
May 2014

I don't know, Davey... that sounds a little communist to me.

Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
7. Only Glenn Beck would consider this idiot to be a historian
Thu May 1, 2014, 05:43 PM
May 2014

David Barton is a joke and no one really considers him to be a historian other than Beck

Crunchy Frog

(26,548 posts)
11. They just say the most outrageous things they can tink of
Thu May 1, 2014, 08:33 PM
May 2014

Just to get a rise out of people. I don't think they really even believe most of the stuff they spout.

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