...and Matt is not above a bit of internet sleight of hand, either, when it will aid his political ends, as shown by this article, from the Washington Post.

Our Constitution guarantees that no American who has reached the age of 18 shall be denied the the right to vote without due process, regardless of race, sex, or creed, or income level, and while everyone, Matt Chancey included, has the right to their personal convictions,  the voters have the right to know that Matt Chancey's convictions concerning suffrage and a good many other things are very much at odds with what is considered right and decent in America today.

Apparently, in the Chancey household's ideal world, fathers would vote for the household, and all daughters would live at home "serving their fathers" (google "Ladies against Feminism" and "Being Your Father's Daughter") until the time of their arranged courtship and marriage, at which time they would pass from their father's ownership into their husband's possession, thus assuring that they would never have the chance to vote; theoretically, any adult sons living at home would be similarly disenfranchised.

Certainly women COULD vote under such a system if they were the heads of their own household, but the only time that this would happen would be when a woman was widowed, and then only until such time as she remarried or moved in with an adult male relative; in Chancey's world, to ensure that widows remarried promptly, they might even be encouraged to avail themselves of Christian matchmaking/arranged-marriage services, such as this one, run by Jennie Chancey's parents. (Jenny Chancey's father is the Reverend Ovid Need; he is a prolific writer, for some samples of his work and his rather amazing views concerning Jews, Catholics, and women, go here and here and here.)

 Head-of-household voting, arranged courtship and marriages, bride-prices.... that's not the American way -- in fact, it's so unAmerican that the average voter would never dream that anyone in this day and age (other than ultra-fundamentalist Moslems) could hold such views, much less an educated man who is running for political office in the United States of America; and just as they wouldn't want a man who holds a strong personal conviction that it is acceptable to embezzle money to serve as their banker or stockbroker, most Americans would not want a man who holds a personal conviction that voting should be restricted to male heads of household to serve them in a position of governmental authority.

But, Matt Chancey and those close to him do appear to hold such views, and in my opinion, the voters of Alabama need to know about it.

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