Gotta Question About Women Voters

#1 12-08-2007, 11:50 AM

I was talking to a woman a while back and she had some comments that kind of threw me and I thought I would put this out there for discussion.
We were discussing the presidential election coming up and the possible considerations. She told me that she would only vote for the same one her husband voted for. That he was the leader of the family and the it was his responsibility to find out the best possible candidate and to lead them in the one to vote for. She said she had always voted the same in any election as her husband and that she felt it was God's design to have the woman follow in the leadership of the man.

I found this incredible, at first it almost made sense but then I said, huh? Does God really expect us ladies to not have a mind of our own and vote only for the candidates our husbands choose? And then I was wondering if a little of the worldly feminism spirit (which I detest) was rubbing off on me. I can't say I ever remember voting different than BOOM on a presidential election, we sort of think the same on those lines anyway, but on other elections I most likely have at times voted different. Even in church leadership elections I don't think we have always voted the same. What think ye?

RandyWayne · #2 12-08-2007, 12:45 PM

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She told me that she would only vote for the same one her husband voted for. That he was the leader of the family and the it was his responsibility to find out the best possible candidate and to lead them in the one to vote for. She said she had always voted the same in any election as her husband and that she felt it was God's design to have the woman follow in the leadership of the man.

Where parody meets reality. LOL

I think a woman who was that meek and/or mindless would drive me nutz if I was married to her!

#3 12-08-2007, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Where parody meets reality. LOL

I think a woman who was that meek and/or mindless would drive me nutz if I was married to her!

Oh, believe me, this woman is not weak nor mindless. She makes for a very good wife and homemaker. I do not fault her for thinking the way she does, but I can't say that I would agree to do it her way for myself.

Joe 7 · #4 12-08-2007, 01:48 PM

My wife doesn't vote but we discuss what and who we vote for. If I am half in my marriage and my wife is the other then we deserve one vote. We lay it all on the table and pray over them. We study them and decided. We always come up with the same.

RandyWayne · #5 12-08-2007, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Jaysun

My wife doesn't vote but we discuss what and who we vote for. If I am half in my marriage and my wife is the other then we deserve one vote. We lay it all on the table and pray over them. We study them and decided. We always come up with the same.

Please clarify. She doesn't vote? Because she doesn't believe in it? Or you don't believe in it?

ILG · #6 12-08-2007, 02:09 PM

Men and women sometimes have different views. That's what democracy is all about. Of course we should get to vote.

MissBrattified · #7 12-08-2007, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jaysun

My wife doesn't vote but we discuss what and who we vote for. If I am half in my marriage and my wife is the other then we deserve one vote. We lay it all on the table and pray over them. We study them and decided. We always come up with the same.

Huh? Last time I checked, two votes were worth more than one--in any election!

You might deserve one vote, but your chosen candidate deserves two.

My husband and I have different political opinions sometimes, so we each vote for the candidate we like the best...and we don't always vote for the same candidate. Why should we have to agree on it and vote exactly alike?

#8 12-08-2007, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jaysun

My wife doesn't vote but we discuss what and who we vote for. If I am half in my marriage and my wife is the other then we deserve one vote. We lay it all on the table and pray over them. We study them and decided. We always come up with the same.

If you are voting for the same person, you should both vote. If not then one of your votes cancels the other anyway. But it is good that you talk about it together.

Emma Bontrager · #9 12-08-2007, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by MrsBOOMM

If you are voting for the same person, you should both vote. If not then one of your votes cancels the other anyway. But it is good that you talk about it together.

I am not weak or mindless either. I CHOOSE to let my husband have the say-so! It doesn't make any difference that my church would castigate me and I would be an outcast if I didn't, but this is how I really want it because I want to be holy and in order to be holy I have to keep silence!!

#10 12-08-2007, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Emma Bontrager

I am not weak or mindless either. I CHOOSE to let my husband have the say-so! It doesn't make any difference that my church would castigate me and I would be an outcast if I didn't, but this is how I really want it because I want to be holy and in order to be holy I have to keep silence!!

If you want to be holy and separate from the world, then answer me this, why are you on the internet?