Right after the election, Pastor Joel Webbon, president of the Right Response Ministries, said that half of his vote was stolen from him by the 19th Amendment—that would be the 1920 amendment that enshrined women’s right to vote. As Webbon noted in his podcast, he does “allow” his wife to vote so that half of his “stolen” vote can be returned to him.
“My loving, wonderful, godly wife—what we’re practicing is not hypocrisy, what we’re practicing is restitution—my loving wife said, ‘Wicked people stole half of your vote, husband, and I would like to give it back to you.’”
Webbon was in fact one of several influential Trump supporters who expressed disdain for women and women’s rights this month. Most of the others threatened women’s bodily autonomy, including at least one threat of rape. But even before the election, one of Trump’s former aides—co-founder of the conservative dating app The Right Stuff, John McEntee—posted a video in which he said, “I guess they misunderstood. When we said we wanted mail-only voting, we meant male: M-A-L-E.”
Webbon and other Christian nationalists’ argument against women’s suffrage is part of a broader picture of how Christian nationalism uses Christian theology to change the entire election process itself. Even before the election, Trump touted changes to the election process, and with Christian nationalism among his platform, women’s suffrage may be the canary in the coal mine for further drastic changes to the electoral system.
Nearly a year ago, Webbon went on right-wing Christian podcast The Standard and explained in greater detail why Christian nationalism opposes women’s right to vote:
“If we had a Christian nation tomorrow, and women did have the right to vote, we would not have a Christian nation within 50 years because the husband has been appointed by God as the head of his home.”
In a 2024 episode of his own podcast Theology Applied, Webbon argued that the repeal of the 19th Amendment is actually “not [about] trying to take away the female vote, but it’s trying to say, no, there’s a family vote,” and that he believes this because “that is the Christian position.”
https://msmagazine.com/2024/11/29/christian-nationalism-project-2025-women-right-to-vote-suffrage/
