Fox News Guest: Allowing Women To Vote ‘One Of The Greatest Mistakes That America Made’

[Galraedia]

Source: ThinkProgress

The Raw Story uncovered a sermon that Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson gave in March in which he spends 10 minutes lecturing his audience about how women have destroyed America. Lee is a radical pastor who says that allowing women to vote was “one of the greatest mistakes that America made.”


“Look at every place where a women is in control,” said Peterson. “You see nothing but confusion. There’s no good in it at all, none.”

Peterson’s sermon began with comments about Sandra Fluke, doubling down on Rush Limbaugh’s slut remarks. But halfway through his speech, he kicked the hate into another gear:

PETERSON: “I think that one of the greatest mistakes that America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote. We should have never turned that over to women.”

“It was a big mistake…these women are voting in the wrong people. They’re voting in people who are evil, who agree with them…Men in the good old days understood the nature of the women, they were not afraid to deal with them.”

“Wherever women are taking over, evil reigns."

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/05/08/479998/jesse-lee-peterson-women-vote/

[usrname]

2. Sounds like a closeted guy

He's got issues.

[harmonicon]

21. I had a roommate in grad school who said the same sorts of things.

His mother abandoned him when he was very young to be raised by his grandparents. It was actually very said, but not so said that I had any sympathy with his misogyny.

[dbackjon]

43. WHY IN THE FUCK IS THAT THE FIRST THOUGHT ON WHENEVER SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING STUPID?

He must be in the closet.

[Luminous Animal]

46. Apparently, it is all the gays fault and there is no such thing as a misogynist straight man.

[cstanleytech]

60. Mine was "What an asshole"

[wordpix]

78. mine was, "I'm gonna stick a pin in my voodoo doll right in his forehead"

[Luminous Animal]

50. He sounds like a misogynist straight man that has issues with women.

Why would you try to smear gays with the hateful rantings of a women-hating straight man?

[Marrah_G]

61. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Stop it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Creideiki]

65. Do you not know any gay men?

Or does "being gay" mean that someone has issues?

Christ that's a moronic idea for someone to hold in the 21st century.

[iandhr]

3. Just when I thought nothing will surprise me...

... a new even more crazy statement comes out from the extreme radical right.

[secondwind]

13. tell me about it...

[DLine]

4. Ann Coulter has been saying this for years...

Seriously!

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2007/10/04/16751/coulter-gardner/

[Blue_Tires]

8. Even Ann Coulter would admit she doesn't believe that if you got a few drinks in her

But she knows what side her paychecks are buttered on, so she keeps the crazy turned up to 11

[The Wielding Truth]

19. Tokyo Rose has nothing on Ann Coulter. Selling out your country is a strange objective yet there are

those who enjoy the limelight so much that it is a kick to them to misrepresent and mislead.

[seabeyond]

9. hey... she voted twice, what she talking about? nt

[harmonicon]

22. See, that's just evidence that women can't properly vote.

You've proved her point.

[seabeyond]

27. lmfao... i knew that why i was typing. it is all so confusing, ya know. nt

[rhett o rick]

28. Not so fast. I think she voted as a man in one of the cases. nm

[CrispyQ]

72. ~lol.

Good one!

[hamsterjill]

5. Fear of the Vagina

Sounds like a jerk with some real problems with females.

Are we really still dealing with idiots like this, with idiot ideas LIKE this, in 2012?

[polichick]

6. Did the female Faux News talking heads cheer?!

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Oh yeah, that League of Women Voters is a whole cauldron of evil...

Scary!

[harmonicon]

24. I LOVE the league of women voters.

I think they do more to bring about an informed electorate than any other group. I absolutely rely on their voter guides for the down ballot races, especially those with several slots.

For those who may not know, their voter guides have nothing to do with advocating any candidate. They simply send out questionnaires to all candidates and publish their responses in the guide.

[FailureToCommunicate]

39. Oh I am completely with you on the League.

Hoist a pint of Sam Smith's for the LWV

[CarmanK]

42. member of the League for 10 years.

They do really good work. And in my county, they cleaned out some riff-raff and made poll monitors accountable. They also worked for upgrading election technology and demanded absolute clarity and made sure every voter has their right to vote.
FL GOP was so desperate, they made the voter registration process so difficult the FL League has pulled out of voter registration. It is a disgrace and all of FL shld be ashamed. They voted these extreme right wing bigots into office, they need to get them out before they poison the whole state and Super Thief in chief, runs off with the STATE TREASURY.

[hifiguy]

75. I wish the LWV still ran the presidential debate

process. I remember when they did and debates were better back then - more informative and less grandstanding.

[NickB79]

76. That one all the way to the right is clearly the ringleader

I'd hate to run into her in a dark alley in the middle of the night, she looks like she can really fuck you up.

[Archae]

10. Any bets as to how many times Peterson has been married?

Two?

Three?

More?

[HereSince1628]

12. And any bets on how many times he's had surgical repair following "Bobbitting"? n/t

[bulloney]

11. Yet, there are women in his congregation and they support his beliefs.

Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.

[polichick]

14. Look how many Catholic women there are, when that church...

...obviously considers women "less than."

All of them, Republican women included, enable those who would keep them down. So sad!

[tru]

47. hayrow1

In contrast to men, of course, like that guy. I don't think many women were in the KKK either.

Sounds like you and Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson would get along well.

[hayrow1]

53. I seriously doubt more than 2% of the male population would vote for

any candidate that proposed every sexual act be exclusively for pro-creation. However, polls show that a large minority of females vote for candidates that propose and vote for laws that deem a womans body be used exclusively as an incubator for any voluntary or involuntary sexual occurance.

To me, this is a huge problem for every member of both genders.

[tru]

70. hayrow1

Let me introduce you to Operation Rescue. What do you think the gender demographic of that is.

[hayrow1]

73. And, how is this is relevant to the fact that 25 - 40% of females always vote to have their bodies

treated as incubators? Please explain.

[Iliyah]

15. PHEW

I wonder if he feels the same way about Blacks voting? I mean wasn't that a mistake also? The goppers are doing their darnest to reflect voting from minorities, why not women, since a great many of the goppers think women are 2nd class citizens (even dumbass gop women).

When will this insane party of no explode? Soon I hope.

[JonLP24]

80. He says racist things about blacks too

Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:

What would you do?
What would you do if you were black?

Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.

To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like.

For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question. If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city, then you'll probably wait for the government to save you.

This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They would take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest of the community. Then local government would come in.

No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.

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It is from John Rocker's hate site that I refuse to link too, I came across it when I looked him up when a Braves pitcher made a homophobic comment.

[AlbertCat]

16. Look at every place where a women is in control,

Renaissance England?

18th Century Russia?

19th Century England?

India in the 1960's and 1970's?

Great Britain in the 1980's?


I dunno.... they seem to do as well, if not better considering, than men.

[Amonester]

23. Iceland in 2012.

Cleaning up the abysmal mess done of the corrupt male pols.

[wickerwoman]

74. New Zealand had a female PM for nine years

and it's certainly one of the first countries you think of when you hear the word "evil".

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. I remember this fool. LA right wing radio would allow him to talk nonsense...

[Amonester]

20. Last I checked, Iceland is (now) governed by women.

They managed to kick the corrupt men's butt out, and are currently doing a pretty good cleanup...

How More Out-Of-Touch™ can that hate pRopagandi$t be??

[Dawson Leery]

25. The purportrators of Christianity, Peter and Paul

concocted a story to justify men holding all power.

[antigone382]

62. Actually, the works that scholars actually attribute to Paul are full of powerful women...

...Paul's letters repeatedly reference important women serving prominent roles in the church and in missionary work. There are of course texts in the New Testament that bear Paul's name and declare that women should remain silent, but most scholars do not believe they were actually written by Paul, because the language used is not his style, and the events referenced are more in keeping with a later time period than when Paul actually lived. It was quite common at that point in history for works to be written in the name of a famous teacher or philosopher (which Paul certainly was to the early Christians) as a way of honoring that person, or claiming that one's work was written in the same spirit as that teacher's works. It was a literary convention and was not considered dishonest, but it is quite confusing today.

In actuality, many early Christian sects were remarkably egalitarian, so much so that they challenged and undermined Roman social structure. Paul himself writes that in Christianity there is no longer male and female, no longer master and slave, as all are equal in Christ. However, Paul also advocated an adaptability to the existing social structure in order to avoid what he perceived as unnecessary offense, and thus further the spread of the gospel, as in his perspective that women should wear veils in Church if it is the social norm where they are, rather than cause scandal. Unfortunately, this adaptability inevitably led to a more mainstream and less revolutionary early church. As the more radically liberal Christian sects were weeded out through persecution, the sects that were better able to conform to mainstream Roman mores, survived and eventually dominated the religion. Many of the descriptions of appropriate family relations found in the later Christian works, particularly those (most likely) falsely attributed to Paul, could have been lifted straight out of Aristotle.

[JoePhilly]

26. He must not be getting any.

[barbtries]

29. every once in a while

my jaw still drops. this is one of those times. WOW

[countryjake]

30. I'd suggest he come up for a visit to WA...

except I wouldn't want him and his Brotherhood getting a foothold in my state.

[HockeyMom]

31. Women should be uneducated, married out of HS, and constantly pregnant

No better than slaves. That is what they want.

[LibertyLover]

32. This is how many of the Quiverfull types operate

Their wives are not allowed to vote and their daughters are not allowed to register. Sons, of course, are taken to register the minute they turn 18. And heck, a year or so ago some state representative in one of the mid-west states said the same thing, that women shouldn't be allowed to vote. What made it particularly disturbing in that case was that the state rep was a woman.

[sulphurdunn]

41. I remember during discussions

of the women's movement back in the early 70s, a friend of mine proposed that the world would be a more just place if more women were elevated to positions of power in society. Sadly, they have and it hasn't. Women in power are every bit as virtuous or corrupt as men. They are no better or worse and are still not even equal.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

33. Let me guess. Reverend Peterson doesn't believe in evolution.

Because he's still got a cave man mentality.

[IndyJones]

34. The guy is looking for his 15 minutes and looks like he's getting it.

[butterfly77]

36. Peterson has been around a long time..

he is one of Hannity's favorites especially if the issue concerns black people..

[rtracey]

35. what?

"Men in the good old days understood the nature of the women, they were not afraid to deal with them.” ... Does he not remember what the racist bigoted men in the good old days did to men like him? He is an arrogant, sexist prick himself who needs to remember history, but I guess some "good old boy" repubs are still pissed at that Democrat Wilson, and his supporting Womens Suffrage movement, or Democrat Johnson on his Civil Rights act... Help Us Vote Them Out Ladies.

[LittleGirl]

37. I want to know how many

women walked out during that sermon. Surely, there was hell fire to deal with afterward.
Sorry, don't have time to read the link.

[meeksgeek]

38. Oh, but there's no war on women.

[sulphurdunn]

40. One of the greatest mistakes

America every made was not taxing churches.

[meeksgeek]

49. +1,000,000

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

44. Someone needs to read about their History.

Wasn't until 1965 when AA could vote, thanks to the The Voting Rights Act of 1965. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act.

[Blue_Tires]

77. We were able to "legally" vote long before that....

pretty much dating all the way back to Reconstruction...The VRA just cleared away the bullshit obstacles, jim crow laws, intimidation, etc.

[JDPriestly]

45. OK. So at least this guy is honest about the conservative view of women,

especially the view of the religious right.

Thanks for posting this.

[Enrique]

48. Cenk has been talking about this guy for years

he's said worse than that

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[felix_numinous]

51. Vote for Obama

or there will be a zombie apocalypse. It has come down to this.

[sarcasmo]

52. Wow, this isn't much different from the Taliban way of thinking, scary.

[AsahinaKimi]

54. What freaking country does this idiot thinks he lives in??

Its people like him, who should NEVER gain any kind of power... ever. Perhaps his little church should have its tax exemption taken away..and people who have heard about this, should shun him. He's an bigoted idiot of the highest form.

[Odin2005]

55. Wat dafuq is that idiot smoking? Jesus!!!

Did this guy drop out of a time warp from 1912???

[guss]

56. Hey Peterson

Wtg peterson. you are a definitely telling all women what they fought for... to vote against u and your interests. putting women in the corner is not a way to gain votes for your party. (unless u are strict ultra muslim acid thrower, or a butter churning amish church head.) thanks for clarifying up who they should support.

[muntrv]

57. Does he think Margaret Thatcher was a foul up? What about Sarah Palin?

[olddad56]

58. makes sense?

“Look at every place where a women is in control,” said Peterson. “You see nothing but confusion. There’s no good in it at all, none.”

After having Dubya for a president, it sort makes it hard for this clown to make his case.

[Mosaic]

59. Why does the United States allow Fox to continue broadcasting?

It is totally un-American and should be shut down. We must demand legislation to make it illegal for all the harm it has done, the smears against Americans, our President, the list is endless. This demands activism, it is time to shut this outrageous cancer on our nation down!

[olddad56]

66. because they are the proaganda arm of the GOP, which is also totally unamerican.

[0rganism]

63. sure, Thatcher's Britain, Merkel's Germany, cesspools of evil

Hitler's Germany? no problem for this guy.

[LASlibinSC]

64. What a peach!

There's a special place for people that use religion to hurt and demean others. Looks like they're gonna need a bigger place.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

67. Queen Elizabeth since 1953???

Even though she is not a politician.

Queen Victoria?

Does he know there are women on the Supreme Court?

How about if we take away his real property and then deny him the right to vote? After all, the only people who could vote after the Constitution was ratified were white men who owned real property, not just personal property.

Molly Ivins talks about "propertied white males" but does not explain that it means real estate (land with surface rights and/or mineral rights) and not personal property.

[grantcart]

68. I asked Mrs. grantcart and she told me I disagreed.

She runs the house and everything is fine.

[lunatica]

69. The confusion he sees is his, but because he's so confused about it

he's blaming women for confusing him. I think.

[newspeak]

71. "wherever women are taking over, evil reigns"?

is this ignorant boob for real? When some men take over evil reigns, you arsehole! Maybe he doesn't think hitler, mussolini, jim jones, stalin, and others who committed crimes against humanity are evil. Iceland, I think finland have many women in their government and are doing just fine.

If this man wants to move to SA, Iran (oops women vote there) or one of the other suppressive countries, I'll pack his bags.

Why do they give these nuts a sounding board? What's the media's motive? This man deserves no attention. And any woman who goes along with this shite, is either abused or being taken care of, where she doesn't give a shite about her own rights.

These neanderthals are taking the country backwards. His america, I wouldn't want any of my family members to be a part of, including the males. And, hey most of my ancestors were the first ones over and meeting the ships on the shore. We've fought hard for those voting rights, you cretin!

[silky]

79. Bombs

And all those women should just stop dropping bombs all over the place killing innocent people and destroying countries !

[sofa king]

81. This guy just canceled out a million Republican votes.

Because no matter how bad he wishes, women do vote and he just pissed off an awful lot of them.

We should petition to have this shnook made a regular guest on Fox news.

[undeterred]

82. A fine thought on Mothers Day.

[randr]

83. And we think this brand of mysogyny is limited to Islamic fundamentalists?

American fundamentalism is very close to falling over the edge.

[Dawson Leery]

84. Only Islam has extremists?

[Ash_F]

85. Fox News Analyst Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks Whites on Slavery

Uncle Ruckus?

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[Ash_F]

86. Kirsten Powers Confronts Hannity's Misogynistic, Racist Pal

At a girl

[TBF]

87. Kicking for exposure -

any woman in this country who votes for a repug needs to seriously contemplate why she thinks so little of herself. Women need to band together to vote these assholes out. And, frankly, we need an overhaul of the FCC. It's time to fight against FAUX news.