So welcome to the flodcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode 391. 391.

So a week or so ago, within the last week, CNN dropped a segment or an episode on reporting on what's going on here in Moscow.

And it has thus to date, it has garnered millions of

views, in part because of the outrage over 19th Amendment issues. So I want to talk about that

for just a bit. The 19th Amendment, it was the amendment to the Constitution that granted women the right

to vote. So it was the women's suffrage amendment. And the question was raised, do you guys,

being patriarchal and all that, do you guys, would you support the repeal of the 19th Amendment?

And my friend Jared Longshore said, I would support that and da-da-da-da-da.

And, of course, indignation ensued.

But as Jared went on to indicate, and as I explained in a subsequent blog post, the issue is not the disenfranchisement of females.

That is not the concern. The concern is the historic disenfranchisement of households. We believe that households are a political unit. We believe

that households are more of a political unit than are isolated, radical individuals. So the

libertarian assumption is that society is made up of individuals, one, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, atomistic individuals.

A more biblical understanding of society holds that society is molecular, meaning society is made up of households and villages and clans and churches and whatnot.

And some of these molecules are complex molecules, and some of them are simple molecules,

but there's a molecular strength to a society that has these bonds between individuals that are not mediated through the state.

Now, if you believe that the household is a political unit, an entity that should be recognized by society,

then the question naturally arises, who's the spokesman for this household? Who's the spokesman for this unit?

So what this boils down to is we don't believe that men over against women should vote. We believe that households should vote.

And ordinarily, in the ordinary course of events, when you want to know how

the household is voting, you ask the head of the household. You ask the representative, the person who

speaks for that household. And under ordinary circumstances in a biblical system, that spokesman is going to be the husband and father.

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