{"id":47111,"date":"2025-08-18T13:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=47111"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:50:31","slug":"on-8-18-1920-women-got-the-right-to-vote-can-we-keep-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2025\/08\/on-8-18-1920-women-got-the-right-to-vote-can-we-keep-it\/","title":{"rendered":"On 8\/18\/1920 Women Got the Right to Vote. Can We Keep It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_30727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30727\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2015\/11\/vote.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30727\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2015\/11\/vote-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: Flickr Creative Commons by Kelly Minars https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dokidoki\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><b>On this day in 1920, the state of Tennessee <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>ratified<\/b><\/a><b> the 19<\/b><b><sup>th<\/sup><\/b><b> Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Women had agitated for this right from the time of the Revolution, beginning with Abigail Adams\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/march-31\/abigail-adams-urges-husband-to-remember-the-ladies\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">plea<\/a> to her husband John Adams to \u201cremember the ladies.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mrs Adams\u2019 plea was unheeded, and the men did not \u201cremember the ladies.\u201d They sidelined all slaves and the female half of population outside of full citizenship.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annenbergclassroom.org\/resource\/womens-rights\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">could not own property,<\/a> had no control of their own earnings and did not have the right to vote.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then as now, the right to vote is everything. It is the only voice We the People have. Without the right to vote, we are all just serfs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That, and not some hatched-up bastardization of Scripture, is why a few <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/women-hegseth-defense-secretary-religion-d962f472910fb47a0c66cd37b01f550d\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">outliers<\/a> among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/09\/pete-hegseth-video-pastors-women-voting\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trump\u2019s whore clergy have begun stepping out on the ice to oppose women\u2019s right to vote.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These guys aren\u2019t \u201cpro life.\u201d They just hate women.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They absolutely are not followers of Jesus Christ. They\u2019re<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>empty sieves who are trying to fill the hollowness inside themselves with satanic hatred.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Trump attracts them. He\u2019s an empty sieve, too. He\u2019s spent his life lying and cheating, hating and hurting. I believe that he\u2019s destroying this country to fill his empty soul.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>People who live by hate and destruction need targets. They need someone to hate and oppress to fill the nothingness of their hopeless, hell-bound existences.<\/strong> Their \u201cwork\u201d such as it is, is satan\u2019s work. They bring chaos and destruction. If you follow them, they will fill your heart with hatred, rage, and moral death.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>They use the name of Christ so people will believe them and then they lead their followers down paths that are diametrically opposed to the Gospels.<\/strong> Trump\u2019s whore clergy don\u2019t lead people to Christ. They lead them away from Christ and into the arms of satan.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Of course<\/i> they attack women.<\/p>\n<p>Women are the life-givers of the human race. Jesus Christ<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u2014 God in human flesh \u2014 was born of a woman. He was raised by a woman.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A woman is the Mother of God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All the things that MAGA has come to stand for \u2014 rape, adultery, protecting pedophiles, racism, concentration camps, corruption, bribes, lies, bullying, threats, extortion, greed, oppression and chaos \u2014 all those things are satanic. They are anathema to anyone who has ever met the living Christ.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no compromise between Jesus and the evils that this regime is enacting and promoting every single day. If you support those things, you cannot also follow Christ. If you support those things, you are denying Christ.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can go to church every day of the week. You can wear a cross so big it drags on the ground when you walk. You can denounce other people\u2019s sins until the spittle runs down your chin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But <strong>if you support and enable rape, adultery, pedophilia, racism, concentration camps, corruption, bribes, lies, bullying, cruelty, threats, extortion, greed, oppression and chaos you have nothing to do with Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise to me that Trump\u2019s whore clergy are beginning to claim that their self-made, hate-filled, woman-hating, demon-serving fake \u201cchristianity\u201d tells them that the right to vote should be taken away from women. How could it be otherwise?<\/p>\n<p>Hate is all they have. Their greed for money and lust for power are just symptoms of the gnawing emptiness inside them. Their hatred of women is just their father satan speaking through them, attacking the Woman with whom he has been at war since the beginning.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Salvation entered the world through a woman.<\/strong> God raised up Deborah to judge Israel and lead her into victorious battle. He used the prophet Huldah to speak to His people for Him. The first person Jesus revealed Himself to as the Messiah was the woman at the well.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them \u201chuman.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>So God created human beings in His own image, in the image of God He created them male and female he created them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Male and female, man and woman, we are all made in the Image and Likeness of God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 19<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified on August 18, 1920.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Women had worked for that day throughout the entire history of this country. The first <a href=\"https:\/\/utahwomenshistory.org\/2018\/10\/the-suffrage-resolution-at-seneca-falls\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Women\u2019s Rights Convention<\/a> that began the organized fight for the right to vote for women was held at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/today-in-history\/july-19\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Seneca Falls NY, in July 1848.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My grandmother was born on the Kansas frontier. She picked cotton, hoed gardens, churned butter, put up food for the winter and learned to cook on a wood stove.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She went to school one day in her life, and that was because her older brother was sick and couldn\u2019t go and her parents didn\u2019t want to waste the money they\u2019d paid for his tuition. So they sent her.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In that one day, she learned the alphabet. From there she taught<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>herself to read, do sums and manage her life.<\/p>\n<p>She was 34 years old before she had the right to vote. So far as I know, she never missed voting in a single election.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My other grandmother was born in the Indian Nation. She was a wild child who grew up to be a <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/pentecostal' target='_blank'>Pentecostal<\/a> Holiness preacher with a radio show that covered 4 states. She was wildly in love with Jesus Christ, and held the Scriptures as Truth. But outside the Book, I don\u2019t believe she cared about any other rules at all. She was a grown woman, a widow with a little boy, when she finally got the right to vote.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, here I am, a grandmother myself, being forced worry about Trump-worshipping, woman-hating, empty jars of men who are pretending they speak for Jesus Christ when they attack the basic human and civil rights of other human beings.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>These men are pitiable husks of people. They are committing grave sin. They are lying about God.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They need our prayers for their conversion to Jesus Christ and Him crucified.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 19<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment giving women the right to vote was ratified on this day in 1920. It came after tireless work and sacrifice of countless women who never lived to see the fruit of their labor.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Like every freedom we possess, it was not free. <strong>Freedom is a fragile thing that must be protected and fought for again and again, with each passing generation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The people who are trying to take our freedoms away from us are acting out of a whirlpool of evil. They are vicious liars.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The first step in taming their runaway evil is simple. Don\u2019t believe their lies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t debate them. The offal they are putting out is not worthy of debate. <strong>Call them out for the lying liars they are. Then turn your back and walk away from them.<\/strong> <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Note: \u201cGod created then male and female \u2026\u201dis a direct quote of Genesis 5:2. \u201cSo God Created human beings in His own Image \u2026\u201d is a direct quote of Genesis 1:27. \u00a0The Woman who had had been at war with from the beginning\u201d refers to Genesis 3:15. It is the first prophecy in Scripture of Our Lady. \u201cThere is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female \u2026<i>\u201d <\/i>is a direct quote from Galatians 3:28-29. You can read about Deborah in Judges chapters 4&amp;5. You can read about Huldah in 2 Kings 22:14-20, and 2 Chronicles 34:22-28.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> Read the story of Jesus and the woman at the well in John 4: 4-<\/span>26.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1920, the state of Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.\u00a0 Women had agitated for this right from the time of the Revolution, beginning with Abigail Adams\u2019 plea to her husband John Adams to \u201cremember the ladies.\u201d\u00a0 Mrs Adams\u2019 plea was unheeded, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":30727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8217,4751,8381,752,7893,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-failed-clergy","category-false-gods-2","category-freedom","category-misogyny-2","category-trump","category-feminism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On 8\/18\/1920 Women Got the Right to Vote. 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Hamilton has been an advocate for human rights, believing that government must support and defend the sanctity of all human lives, from conception to natural death. Representative Hamilton: Authored the original Victim\u2019s Protective Order to protect battered women, Obtained funding for the first statewide program for adult day care and the first statewide program of domestic violence shelters, and she She has also passed legislation to prevent law enforcement officials from publicly posting the private information of rape victims, Rep. Hamilton authored a 2005 law hailed as the most significant piece of pro-life legislation in Oklahoma in 30 years. She also passed the bill outlawing elective abortions in state-funded hospitals She has passed pro life bills requiring informed consent, parental notification, and limiting forced abortions. She also passed a law allowing prosecutors to file criminal charges against anyone who intentionally causes the death of an unborn child by harming the mother. Rep. Hamilton has also authored legislation ensuring taxpayers are not forced to subsidize elective abortions Rep. Hamilton was one of six original co-founders of first rape crisis center in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma City Democrat has worked to bring a wide range of groups together to fight on the behalf of abused women, including the creation of the Annual Day of Prayer for an End to Violence Against Women at the Oklahoma Capitol. Rep. Hamilton has been married for 30 years to her husband, Rodney, and the couple has two grown sons. 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