Yes, there is a movement to take away women’s right to vote

A century after the U.S. passed the 19th Amendment allowing women to vote, Dale Partridge and some other pastors say that was a mistake and are calling for its repeal.

“If we can repeal Roe v. Wade, then I think we can overturn the 19th Amendment,” said Partridge, pastor at King’s Way Church in Prescott, Ariz. “We will repeal the 19th Amendment within 10 years,” he said in a February Instagram post that argued bad things happen when women are permitted to vote:

• “Women vote with emotions”
• “National policy is feminized”
• “Immigrants flood in”
• “Sexual immorality is legalized”
• “Multiculturalism is celebrated”
• “Feelings become the arbiter of morality”
• “Justice is labeled as ‘harsh’”
• “Western nations collapse”
• “Women blame men”

Opponents of women voting often blame women, but not men, for providing the votes to pass state laws protecting access to abortion. In 2025, after women helped elect Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani mayor of New York City, Partridge posted on X: “I don’t think we should repeal the 19th Amendment because I don’t love women. I think we should repeal the 19th Amendment because I love America and American women and want to protect our nation from their suicidal empathy.”

Partridge is not alone in these sentiments. As BNG previously reported, Doug Wilson, a controversial pastor based in Moscow, Idaho, and co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, agrees with Partridge, saying the 19th Amendment was passed because Americans embraced “the lie of individualism” that hurts families.

Wilson is the head of a network of churches that includes U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as a member.

Wilson advocates for a patriarchal system where the male head of the household casts a single vote for his family, effectively disenfranchising women unless they are the head of their household.

Partridge, a conservative Reformed pastor who was an entrepreneur after he sought a career playing baseball, has generated more than his share of controversy:

• He said women should stop wearing leggings that lead men to lust, and his wife, Veronica, quickly removed then from her wardrobe.
• He has an acknowledged history of plagiarizing the work of others in his writing.
• He says women should wear head coverings in church in his book, A Cover for Glory: A Biblical Defense for Headcoverings.
• He says women should not serve as worship leaders with authority over men.
• He said interracial marriage is “not ideal,” even though his wife is Mexican American.
• In 2016 he settled a lawsuit that accused him of illegally cutting down his neighbor’s trees to improve the view out the windows of his new house. He had posted a photo on Facebook that showed him cutting down one of the trees with a chainsaw.

The U.S. Congress approved the 19th Amendment on June 4, 1919, and it became part of the Constitution when it was ratified by the 36th state legislature on Aug. 18, 1920.

Northern Baptists largely supported the right of women to vote, while Southern Baptists largely opposed it.

To date, the only amendment to the U.S. Constitution to be repealed is the 18th, which created Prohibition. Prohibition was effective from 1920 to 1933.

Partridge and Wilson may underestimate the time and work it takes to overturn an amendment.

“To overturn a U.S. Constitutional amendment, a new amendment must be passed that specifically repeals the existing one. This process requires a proposal by two-thirds of both houses of Congress or a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of state legislatures, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states (38 of 50),” according to the Brennan Center.

It’s not clear that Partridge or those who criticize the 19th Amendment have done any of the work required to generate support for repealing it.

Partridge has written about masculinity (The Manliness of Christ: How the Masculinity of Jesus Eradicates Effeminate Christianity) and has preached sermons on “An Introduction to Biblical Patriarchy” and “The Fall, Feminism, and the Fight for Order.”

“People like you are why I’m a feminist,” wrote one YouTube commenter, “and much happier and more fulfilled for it than I ever was as a Christian.”

The National Women’s Law Center sees talk of repealing the 19th Amendment as just one of the current challenges to Americans voting: “One hundred years since the passage of the 19th Amendment, our country has moved from gradually expanding the right to vote to reinstating voter suppression mechanisms and threats of disenfranchisement. Today, we must acknowledge the progress we have made — while remaining fiercely committed to the work ahead.”

What is real today is conservatives’ attack on voting rights for all people. President Donald Trump and his MAGA coalition are currently pushing the SAVE America Act, claiming this legislation would keep noncitizens from voting. Critics say the bill’s true purpose is making it harder for millions of Americans — including Blacks, women and the poor — to vote.

The League of Women Voters says the SAVE Act “simply creates another barrier to voting.” The Save ACT would require married women who have changed their names to use a passport or other photo ID to register to vote, which could suppress the female vote.

 

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