Far-right Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge joined antisemitic pastors Calvin Robinson and Joel Webbon on the latter's program last week where he announced that, like Robinson, he too has a book coming out on Webbon's NXR imprint in the near future..
Partridge is a vocal advocate of instituting biblical patriarchy in America, so it was no surprise to learn that his book will be titled "19 Reasons to Repeal the 19th Amendment," which is what gave women the right to vote in 1920.
Partridge said that his book will expose "the damage that has been done through the 19th Amendment, and why it's not just wrong against scripture—coming from a biblical patriarchal perspective—but why it's never been done throughout history from any other nation."
"Any other nation that embraces such a view where you're putting women in charge of making decisions for a particular nation, that nation falls," Partridge claimed. "I think there's going to be a lot of evidence, a lot of research [that] women suffer more from women's suffrage."
"When the 19th Amendment first came to be, there was a massive group of women that were against it and you never hear some of these narratives," he continued. "So [the book will provide] the history of it, the argument against it, and many reasons justifying it. I think that by the end, people are going to go, 'Wow.' I think women at the end are going to go, 'We must repeal this.'"
"My hope is that we can get thousands of people to read this book and that we can—over maybe the next 10, 15 years—have a Supreme Court case repealing the 19th," Partridge declared. "If we can repeal Roe v. Wade, then I think we can overturn the 19th Amendment. It's just going to take time."
"Wow," replied Robinson approvingly. "Some good Christian sexism."
"Yep," agreed Partridge.
In addition to some “good Christian sexism,” Partridge’s comments reveal some fundamental misunderstanding about how our government works. The 19th Amendment is part of the Constitution and therefore could not be repealed or ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court—it would take the kind of state-by-state fight that led to the amendment’s ratification. Good luck with that.