In Honor of 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage

The 19th Amendment was first introduced into Congress in 1878. Prior to its passage, some western territories and states had already granted women suffrage. The 19th Amendment passed both houses of Congress 41 years later in 1919. Organized opposition arose in 1911, but by then it was too late.

Our forefathers were chiefly opposed to women taking a public role, and women who would govern the community through public speeches and other tools of public influence such as the vote. They understood that men are supposed to protect women by preventing them from exercising civic authority. Women respond strongly to shame and peer pressure, performing acts of depravity and perversion in attempts to garner the approval of their radical friends. They are more vulnerable and easily mislead, as shown by Eve, and are easily tricked by malign actors who would lead them astray.

Our forefathers believed that women should not speak in public in such a way as to teach, or lead, the community. That role was reserved by God and by nature to adult men. Scripture speaks clearly to this issue:

To the woman he said…“Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you,”

Genesis 3:16

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

1 Timothy 2:11-15

God’s laws are not arbitrary. The most fundamental law is eternal law, or that law by which God governs creation as a whole. God is Supreme Reason and Goodness itself, and His providence looks to the common good. Moreover, God’s law is not is not so much about doing good as it is about being good, and being good is about satisfying our natural desire for communion with God (Krom, 2020.)

By going against God’s will, women cleave themselves from God, damning them to an eternity of Hell fire. Suffrage cleaves them from God because suffrage granted to women is neither good for them nor good for the community. God’s laws are not confined to the Church or marriage, but refer to the fundamental natures of men and women, personified in Adam and Eve. These scriptural truths were why women did not have the franchise for centuries. The Church Fathers further clarify:

Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one’s guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. … Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.

Saint Albertus Magnus, Dominican theologian, 13th century: Quaestiones super de animalibus XV q. 11

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from a defect in the active force or from some material indisposition, or even from some external influence.

Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, 13th century: Summa Theologica I q. 92 a. 1

In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God’s sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil’s gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack.

Tertullian, “the father of Latin Christianity” (c160-225): De Cultu Feminarum (On the Apparel of Women), Chapter 1

Women are driven towards evil through their vulnerability, as men are driven towards reason. A just and reasonable society does not give a defective and misbegotten woman power over his society. Doing so is equal to giving power to the diabolical one. Our great-grandfathers knew this, as did their fathers, and the fathers before them.

At the turn of century, industrialists saw opportunity in taking women away from their families, exploiting them through labor and manipulating them into desiring the vote. Industrialists invented “feminism,” a tool of rich corporations to separate women from their children and destroy the family, in order to make more money off of their labor. It was no longer economically efficient to have women at home. Catholic teachings see this as exploitation. The economic order of society exists to fulfill the needs and wants of the families within it, thus the new economic order is understood as sinful. Women, however, believe they are working towards their happiness. This is a lie, straight from the chief liar, himself.

Satan, the father of lies, acted through these industrialists. Satan works through weak-minded men and women, possessing their souls and turning them to lust after what they would not find fulfilling. Women, uniquely vulnerable to Satan’s lies, were tricked into defying their husbands, and upending the natural hierarchy. Pious woman who submit themselves to God, their husbands, and their fathers, were beguiled by into believing they will not find fulfillment in their vocation as a mother, or in submission to Christ. Bewitched and tormented, they railed against the very structures that protected and nourished them.

They did not know that the voice whispering in their ears was that of Satan’s. Satan's whispers are always lies.

Women do not find fulfillment in voting, the workplace, or in “independence” from motherhood. Feminism and woman’s liberation makes women miserable. Women today are profoundly unhappy. Their unhappiness has been steadily increasing for the last 4 decades. A quarter of all women use some sort of mental health medication, and a quarter of women age 45 or older uses antidepressants. Women use antidepressants 2.5 times more than men and this number is rising rapidly.

Today, we can see that women’s suffrage has perverted our politics beyond anything our fathers would have imagined. Women vote disproportionately in favor of liberal, progressive, pro-sodomite, and anti-Christian policies. At first, the difference was hard to perceive, but as divorce rates rose, more women were saddled with the costs of raising children. Those divorced women sought legal guarantees to some potion of this expected income through alimony, and through government sureties. Women are more risk-averse than men, and typically choose to use the government to provide insurance for their choices. Giving women the right to vote increased the size of the government. Of the twenty-nine states that gave women the right to vote before the 19th amendment to the constitution was approved in 1920. In states where women had been voting longer, the government was larger. Growth in female voter turnout is positively associated with the expansion of government.

Image of the difference between male and female voter patterns

Women are empathetic souls, and it is this very nurturing vulnerability that Satan uses to work his Evil. Altruism and risk-aversion, when removed from the family and placed in politics, turns pathological when left unchecked. Our gentle, more gullible halves are taken advantage of by political charlatans and Satan into voting against their own interests, and the interests of their families.

Feminism has lied to women. The myth that women desire independence from motherhood is predicated on a structure of lies and half-lies from industrialists, indoctrinating the public mind over the last century. These Satanic changes and distortions have become commonly accepted dogma among institutions, saturating our culture. The original truth was buried many decades ago, and today’s feminists are desperate to keep it a secret. Feminism is based on a lie, and the only way to promote feminism is to veil the reality of it. Men and women of God cannot transact with the fruits of feminism’s ideas without becoming subsumed by it. Interacting positively with anything feminists say which promotes the categories or beliefs of feminism is thus sinful.

Renounce Satan. Repeal the 19th, and return to God’s fold.