Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a Fox News contributor, tea party activist and personal friend of Sean Hannity’s said in a sermon recently published to YouTube that America’s greatest mistake was allowing women the right to vote, adding that back in “the good old days, men knew that women are crazy and they knew how to deal with them.”
In the video, published to YouTube in March, Peterson explains that he believes women simply can’t handle “anything,” and that in his experience, “You walk up to them with a issue, they freak out right away. They go nuts. They get mad. They get upset, just like that. They have no patience because it’s not in their nature. They don’t have love. They don’t have love.”
Despite his statements being online for more than a month, Hannity welcomed Peterson on his show last weekto castigate the Obama administration over “taking credit” for the Osama bin Laden assassination — but the segment didn’t exactly go as planned.
In his March sermon, Peterson adds that Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law student who recently spoke to a House Democratic hearing on contraception coverage, was actually revealing “all the sex” college students are having. “It’s really all about maintaining the freedom to kill babies in the womb,” he says. “Women are now degraded. Women have no shame.”
At roughly 8:30 into his 12-minute sermon, he doubles down, amazingly, saying that he believes America went wrong when it gave women the right to vote.
“I think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote,” Peterson says. “We should’ve never turned this over to women. And these women are voting in the wrong people. They’re voting in people who are evil who agrees with them who’re gonna take us down this pathway of destruction.”
“And this probably was the reason they didn’t allow women to vote when men were men. Because men in the good old days understood the nature of the woman,” he adds. “They were not afraid to deal with it. And they understood that, you let them take over, this is what would happen.”
Peterson, founder of the conservative religious group Brotherhood of a New Order of Destiny (BOND), appeared on the Fox News Channel on May 1, more than a month after giving his controversial sermon. Fox News host Kirsten Powers even confronted Peterson about his “mysogynistic” speech and challenged Hannity to repudiate it, but the Republican opinion host did not, and instead gave Peterson a platform to denounce “liberal, women policies.”
That may not be a surprise, however: Hannity has hosted Peterson numerous times and even serves on the BOND board. “BOND continues to fight the good fight standing for the values of God, family, and country, and are deserving of our support,” he said, according to the group.
Speaking to Peterson on May 1, Powers protested his appearance on Hannity’s show, explaining that she was “hijacking” it because “I didn’t know I was going to be on with him.” She then accused him of “using God’s word to teach misogyny.”
“I don’t know if you noticed or not, but the liberal Democrat womens are calling themselves whores,” Peterson replied. “They came out with their so called group of women who are within the Democrat party, and they are admitting that they’re whores and they are saying that they are proud of it. I’m okay with that, I just don’t want to pay for it.”
“I have a responsibility to tell the truth,” he added “You’re on the side of lies. Why shouldn’t I be on the side of truth? And it’s the truth that’s gonna make us free. Somebody gotta tell the truth, so I’m going to tell the truth.”
That “truth,” it would seem, isn’t just about liberal women, or even women in general. Peterson made headlines in January after telling a Huffington Post reporter that he would like to see black people put “back on the plantation so they would understand the ethic of working… They need a good hard education on what it is to work.”
Peterson has also been on the leading edge of racially-motivated Republican attacks on Planned Parenthood, alleging at a press conference in 2008 that the group is responsible for killing “over 1,500 black babies” every day.
Neither Peterson nor a Fox News spokesperson responded to requests for comment.
(hat tip to Stephen Webster at Raw Story)
Sometimes the “crazy” on the right seems so fanatical one wonders if they orchestrate this mess for the attention.
Posted by: Finis Hominis | May 08, 2012 at 03:22 PM
That was about as pissed off as I have ever seen Kirsten Powers. She was hot and determined (and right).
Sean pissed me off by not backing her up.
Posted by: Chucks | May 08, 2012 at 05:02 PM
Dear God I fear we are entering another Dark Age. The triumph of ignorance over intelligence.
Posted by: AprilMayJune | May 08, 2012 at 07:00 PM
Yes, as demonstrated in North Carolina today.
Posted by: sparky | May 08, 2012 at 07:17 PM
wow Chucks, we agree
Posted by: Coiler | May 08, 2012 at 07:46 PM
Trying to push us back 100 years and put the genie back in the bottle. What a joke !
Kirsten Powers was correct and Fox (Hannity) loses credibility for remaining silent while Peterson had his rant and being as partisan to the right as the MSNBC and CNN are partisan to the left- two wrongs never make a right.
Posted by: KS | May 08, 2012 at 07:47 PM
If some of the targeted audiences reject this sort of rhetoric, I wonder who this is aimed at.
Posted by: Finis Hominis | May 08, 2012 at 09:10 PM
Well, I would say that the WAY TO ATTRACT women voters to your party is do what our President just did, and that is back gay marriage. A very brave move on his part and I think pretty much checkmates his opposition. This is looking like a slam dunk for Mr Obama in November.
Posted by: DontWorryBeHappy | May 09, 2012 at 12:58 PM
The lgbt, the woman, black, latino & youth votes. What other vote can he garner?
Posted by: Montego | May 09, 2012 at 03:58 PM
Slam dunk ? NOT Obama is up by 0.2 % in the composite of all polls in Real Clear Politics. Maybe in leftwing reactionary Seattle, but not nationwide. This Peterson guy does not affiliate himself with Romney's campaign.
Women, Youth, and some blacks and hispanics should have enough discernment and intelligence to realize that Mr. Obama is superficial, has a problem with the truth and is incompetent and a rigid ideologue. Whoever doesn't or doesn't want to does so at their own peril.
Posted by: KS | May 09, 2012 at 07:48 PM
It was a dumb statement by Peterson but the good news is that he didn't rape any nursing home directors.
Posted by: billy bob frog gigger | May 12, 2012 at 11:02 PM
Fauxbama was exposed by Hannity this week to have endorsed gay marriage, when he was running for the Illinois State Senate in 1999, which makes a cynical joke out of his speech the other day, where he claimed he had finally changed his "anti" view after a hard process of soul searching. Fauxbama is a master of fakery. KS is right.....the Obama Campaign according to James Carville, now has a delusional sense of coasting to easy victory over Romney, whom they foolishly underestimate. Reminds me a bit of Pappy Bush'es dismissive attitude toward Clinton.
Posted by: Reverend Beamer | May 13, 2012 at 12:46 AM