Joel Webbon Says “Half Of My Vote Was Stolen From Me In Women’s Suffrage”. His Wife “Votes His Vote” to Give It Back from the “Evil Men” Who Took It from Him

The full quote leaves little room for interpretation: “I see it as our household vote and that half of my vote was stolen from me in women’s suffrage. And so my wife votes, but she votes alongside me. She votes my vote because what she’s doing is as a woman who fears the Lord and as a submissive wife, she’s saying, evil men stole half of your vote and gave it to me and I’m giving it back.”

Webbon is the senior pastor of Covenant Bible Church in Georgetown, Texas, and president of Right Response Ministries. The clip is from the July 13 episode of “Christian Nationalism Weekly” on his own NXR Studios network, and clips started circulating on social media shortly after.

The exchange came in a longer segment with guest Dale Partridge, who told Webbon he’s writing a book called “19 Reasons to Repeal the 19th Amendment.” Webbon offered his own marriage as the workaround until repeal happens: his wife casts a ballot, but she casts *his* ballot.

An AI-generated illustration accompanying an article about Joel Webbon’s views on women’s suffrage and household voting.

Repealing the 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, is a fringe position with no path through Congress or the states. It has gained visibility online since the mid-2010s in Christian nationalist, complementarian, and “trad” spaces, where pastors like Webbon and Douglas Wilson have defended “household voting” as a biblical alternative to universal suffrage. A 2025 survey of roughly 3,300 adults found about 22.6% agreed with repealing the 19th and about 20.5% backed household voting, with support concentrated among men and self-identified complementarians. Proponents point to the persistent gender gap in presidential elections (women broke about 53-46 for Harris in 2024, men about 55-43 for Trump) as evidence that women’s votes are pulling policy leftward on abortion, welfare, and immigration.

Webbon has been building toward this argument for years. He’s publicly said non-Christians shouldn’t hold office, floated a “Christian nationalist Caesar” who could rule with an “iron fist,” and, per People For the American Way, opposed women’s suffrage as part of his broader vision for a Christian nation. On the same July 13 episode, he and Partridge floated IQ tests, net-taxpayer tests, and stripping the vote from welfare recipients and felons as intermediate steps toward the same goal.

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