On repealing the 19th Amendment, the interview, April 20th, 20, 26.

I've noticed that I've been asked more questions about the 19th Amendment over the last year or so

than I had ever been asked in all of my life prior. There is, of course, some sort of strategy behind all the

questions, which is usually aimed at discrediting our larger project, and so some friends have

therefore wondered about what reasons I might have for even answering the questions. I subsequently

hit upon the device of addressing all the questions in one go through the construct of an imaginary

interview. That way, I can just refer people here. So this

interview is with the intelligent women's examiner, Iwi, a publication which does not share my

views and is not in sympathy with them, but nevertheless sent a couple of competent reporters

who knew enough to not give way to hysterics upon encountering my troglodyte views. So, here we go. Iwi, thank you very much for agreeing to sit down with us. D-dub, happy to do it. Iwi, let's begin with what we think would be the obvious question. Do the women and your family vote? D-dub? Yes, of course. And in another respect, in a different realm, no, I we. All right, please explain.

D-dub.

They all vote in civic elections. My wife votes, my daughters vote, my daughter-in-law votes, and my granddaughters who are old enough, vote. If I were a Democrat and lived in Fulton or Maricopa County, my great-grandmother would still be voting. The no would be because they don't vote in our church elections. According to our polity, our congregation

votes when we are electing deacons and elders and in calling a pastor. In these elections, we all vote by

household, and those votes are cast by the head of the household. We've been doing it that way for

decades now and with not one complaint about it, aye we. So you're willing to say out loud that the women in your church don't have any say when it comes to the selection of officers in your church government? D-dub. Household voting is not a mechanism for taking away anyone's say. It is a different mechanism for routing that say, one that includes and takes into account the most important relationships a woman has. So our women as individuals

don't have a voice in the voting process, but neither do the men as individuals. When the household

is discussing what they are going to do, of course they have a say, not in the voting process,

but around the dinner table. So I'm simply emphasizing that in our system the entire household votes.

Now, as it happens, I would

estimate that in our church elections, the number of votes cast by women would be between

5% and 7%. These would be women who are widows, or divorced, or unmarried women in a household

of one. The scriptures clearly describe Lydia, for example, as the head of her household,

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