I AM NOMINATING STEVE PEARCE
FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF MALE CHAUVINISTS INTERNATIONAL
I am nominating Steve Pearce for the Presidency of Male Chauvinists International. In his book, Just Fly the Plane, Stupid!, he writes that both the military chain of command and the family unit need structure in which everyone plays his or her role. He is the General; she is the Private. (There is a rigidity and lack of love and compassion in this which is very upsetting to me.)
He really is soft and cuddly.
He also believes that the wife’s role is to submit and as he says this is biblical. It is:
EPHESIANS 5:22- 33.
Submission should be easy to a loving husband, one who loves his wife as Christ loves the Church. Ephesians 5 does not allow the husband to be selfish or domineering. The wife submits in things that are right and lawful and God honoring– really she submits in everything. So the husband can be whatever he is. He does not have to pass an intelligence or a kindness test.
THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT
The Greek which the King James Version translates “submit to” is hypotassesthai. Arndt and Gingrich, the most commonly used New Testament dictionary today, translates the word “subject oneself, be subjected or subordinated, obey,” and give examples of submission to parents, masters, church officials, secular authorities.
It also speaks of voluntary submission in love, in Ephianes 5:21, all that is good.
The husband’s duty is given as “loving” his wife, “as his own body.” This can be taken to mean, “Don’t hit your wife”; thus the wife is to be presented “without spot or wrinkle and ” without “blemish.” Wife beating was socially approved of at the time of the New Testament, and till much later, unfortunately.
RESPECT AND FEAR
The New International Bible translates Ephesians 5: 33: the wife must respect her husband. The Greek word that is translated respect can also be translated “fear.”
In short, a husband is to love his wife and not beat her.
HELPMEETS
Helpmeets, or Meethelps is also in the Bible. Genesis 2:18. It means that a husband and wife are allies, helping each other, admiring one another. Both may use the gifts that God has given them.
As I have said before I am a Quaker and helpmeets is a Quaker word. George Fox, the Seventeenth Century human founder of Quakers, believed in the equality of all people. He put up a spirited defense for women that they could speak in Meeting; they shouldn’t have to stay at home and do the dishes while men go out and to do more interesting things.
WHATEVER KIND OF RELATIONSHIP PEARCE AND HIS WIFE SHARE IS THEIR BUSINESS AND NO ONE ELSE’S
It doesn’t matter how he demeans his wife. That is between him and her. But when he demeans the women in his constituency, this is a very different thing.
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PEARCE CAN BE AN EGALITARIAN; HE HARMS BOTH THE MEN AND WOMEN OF HIS CONSTITUENCY EQUALLY
1. He voted against unemployed New Mexicans. He advises unemployed individuals to take out Payday Loans. (He seems to be a good friend of the Payday Loan industry.)
2. He voted to cut the funds of SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Many New Mexicans depend on this program. Although employed some New Mexicans still need SNAP so that they can feed their families adequately.
3. He voted for HR5, the “Letting Students Down Act” which would cut a great deal of money from educational funding, making it harder for students to complete educations that become more costly each year. If that wasn’t bad enough, HE VOTED TO INCREASE INTEREST ON STUDENT LOANS.
BUILDING A WALL BETWEEN MEXICO AND THE U.S.
In 2008, before Trump, Steve Pearce voted for building a wall between the United States and Mexico.
THE JOB OF ANY GOVERNMENT IS TO ENFORCE JUSTICE AND PROVIDE PROTECTION FOR ITS CITIZENS!!
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STEVE PEARCE IS THE INCUMBENT AND
HE IS RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION
HE HAS HARMED THE PEOPLE OF
DONA ANA COUNTY AND SHOULD NOT REPRESENT US IN CONGRESS AGAIN
Steve Pearce was born in 1947, which makes him 69 years old. (He can get Medicare.) He votes with the Republican Party on the majority of bills but he leans farther to the right than some of his Republican colleagues. He is running for re-election this year, 2016. Steve Pearce, shares many of Trump’s beliefs.
He voted against the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
He strongly favors privatizing Social Security.
Older Americans should be able to look forward to social and economic justice so that they may enjoy lives of dignity, fulfillment and security. Under a privatized Social Security system, this would not happen. There are many poor people in Southern New Mexico: people who might possibly not have even had a bank account. They would be asked to manage their Social Security.
Pearce has contempt for the poor and tells them, like Marie Antoinette, to eat cake.
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Top 5 industries that contributed
to his past campaigns:
Oil and Gas $305,005
Retired $121,415
Real Estate $73,201
Commercial Banks $71,399
Livestock $70,717
From 1999- 2014 Leadership Pacs gave him $644, 022
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Justice means being fair.
When I think of Steve Pearce, I do not think of words like fair, kind, caring, dependable, and responsible to all his constituents.
He does not have a grand and wonderful vision of peace and justice for this country and its people. His vision is more limited to peace, justice and power for people like himself: rich and predominantly white.
I don’t think of him as a man who tries to break down barriers that divide us and work so that our divisions are healed, and we may live in justice and peace.
