Reformed pastor Dale Partridge says he doesn’t hate women, but he doesn’t think they have the emotional capacity to vote. After months of tirades against emancipated females, he published a video on Jan. 24 calling white liberal women “the epitome of stupid.”
In November, the Arizona pastor said, “Nearly every legalized moral atrocity in the last 100 years was made possible by the female vote.”
The same day, the 45-year-old lead pastor at King’s Way Bible Church in Prescott, argued for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which grants women the right to vote.
“I don’t think we should repeal the 19th Amendment because I don’t love women,” he wrote on X. “I think we should repeal the 19th Amendment because I love America and American women and want to protect our nation from their suicidal empathy.”
The social media post has been viewed more than 150,000 times, according to X. The Instagram video has been viewed more than 40,000 times.
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Partridge has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on each of the two social media platforms and tens of thousands on YouTube. He has in recent years consistently attracted attention and followers by stoking outrage. Recently, his most frequent target has been women.
‘Suicidal empathy’
Partridge returned to the argument on Jan. 24 in a reaction video on Instagram.
While playing a video of a woman shouting, “Trans lives matter!” he said liberal white women “have fallen for the lies of feminism.”
His conclusion: “This is untethered, suicidal empathy.”
Sheila Wray Gregoire, speaker and author of “She Deserves Better” told The Roys Report (TRR) that people shouldn’t take Partridge’s arguments about empathy seriously.
She pointed to peer-reviewed research, such as studies by The University of Michigan and the science journal Nature, which show little difference between genders and emotional reactivity.
“This man hates women,” Gregoire said. “He doesn’t want them to vote. He thinks they’re stupid.”
Partridge has also blamed women in the workforce for increasing immigration, male pornography addiction and general societal unhappiness.
But Partridge seems increasingly focused on what he sees as the dangers of women’s suffrage. In November 2024, before the election, Partridge posted on X that women should vote according to their husbands’ direction. The post got him international attention.
Author Jemar Tisby said Partridge’s stance shows how “white Christian nationalism” is a threat to democracy.
“White Christian nationalism envisions not only a racial and ethnic hierarchy, but a gender hierarchy as well — men at the apex of society and women subordinate in every meaningful way,” Tisby wrote on Facebook. “So here we are in 2024 with pastors talking about headship and submission in voting.”
Partridge has also stirred controversy writing about race. On Jan. 11, he caused an uproar on social media when he said interracial marriage is not the “ideal.”
“I do not believe it is sinful,” he wrote, noting that he is personally in an interracial marriage. “And if providence positions two Christians from different ethnic backgrounds to unite in marriage, it can be a glorious thing.”
Partridge said that despite the success of his own marriage, he would not necessarily recommend it.
“Interracial marriage does create a variety of additional hurdles in marriage and family life, from overcoming different family expectations and cultural traditions to a wife’s assimilation into her husband’s culture,” he said.
The post was in response to a debate between pastor Joel Webbon and YouTube apologist Avery Austin Jr. on the Ruslan podcast. Partridge included a photo of himself and his wife, Vanessa, a Mexican-American woman, on his post. They have been married for 16 years and have four children.
In March last year, it was found that Partridge posed as his wife, posting on her X account in support of male-led marriage.
In another video, he lays out the ideal roles for women by pointing out what they shouldn’t be doing: taking birth control, working a corporate job, working as a soldier or in the armed forces, and participating in “masculine” sports.
Partridge doesn’t just promote these views online; they fill his church too. In August 2024, he was called out for a leaflet promoting Kings Way Reformed touting “smiling wives,” along with “obedient children,” “young marriages” and more
Ben Marsh, pastor at First Alliance Church Winston-Salem in North Carolina, called it “an ad for abusive husbands” on X. Partridge called Marsh’s post, which has since been taken down, slanderous.
Partridge criticizes conservatives, Christians and fathers for allowing feminism to infiltrate their ranks.
“If your daughter is chanting ‘we love trans people,’ you are the ultimate failure of a man,” he said in the Jan. 24 video.
A history of clickbait
Partridge is quick to market himself as a theologian. He has also founded the online Relearn Seminary.
Yet this was not his first career. In 2011, he made international headlines as an Oregon-based philanthropic entrepreneur when he formed the clothing brand Sevenly. He raised millions of dollars for charities and garnering criticism from the autistic community for performative activism. He left in 2014. No explanation has been given.
Partridge published the book “People Over Profit” in 2015. He was accused of plagiarism.
In 2020, Religion News Service reported that several of the endorsements for his book “Real Christianity” were made up. The people who supposedly endorsed his work did not actually exist. Partridge said it was “an embarrassing error.”
“I spoke with my team,” he said, “and we are going to slow down and be far more diligent with anything we release.”
Gregoire argues that Patridge ought not really be seen as a theologian.
“He never speaks about Jesus, because Jesus would never say the things that he does,” she told TRR. “He only speaks about ‘God’ and ‘the Bible’ because you can make hateful arguments when you separate them from Jesus.”
And if he’s wrong about Jesus, God and the Bible, she said, he’s wrong about empathy too.
“I’d just say this: At the Nuremberg trials, psychologist Gustave Gilbert was trying to figure out how all of these people could have been so evil,” Gregoire said. “And the commonality that they possessed was the absence of empathy. I think that speaks volumes.”
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We need male leaders who are in control of their emotions!
Like Donald Trump?
How does one have the emotional capacity to vote?
I guess this is an odd question but it’s one that’s in response to a even more odd ideology.
Having said this I hope these folks stay in the fringes of Evangelicalism just like Doug Wilson.
I didn’t even know that voting required emotional capacity. I thought voting only required common sense and a sound mind. My bad. I guess Mr. Partridge (in a pear tree?) votes based on his emotions. Well, good for him, I guess. But he’s being way too emotional about it.
FYI Doug Wilson is going mainstream in the MAGA Christian Influencer crowd.
And what do men lack. This is so wrong. With all the scandals surrounding men how is there time to make an argument like this.
Exactly. By his warped logic, then men shouldn’t be anywhere near a pastoral role because they make up the majority of warlords, dictators, violent criminals, and child abusers. But of course, he’ll carve out an exemption himself and explain why his sins make him uniquely qualified for the job.
It is interesting that such people qualify for non-profit status with the IRS when they operate without accountability or anything resembling an actual church. Chaos agitators without accountability.
I believe such men are dangerous to the women and children in his life. Abuse is a mentality, not just specific actions.
These types of people attract other twisted people drawn to radicalized, contemptuous wolves in shepherd’s clothing who lie and deceive with impunity. There are deeply disturbing radicals masquerading as Christians.
Ignoring such men is the most effective response unless warnings from other men might expose the perversion of Partridge and his ilk. They will never stop. Wolves by definition will not repent. They thrive on shocking. Limiting their impact is the best response.
I wonder if he knows how to read – Many men don’t
UNEDUCATED Dale Partridge thinks women shouldnt vote. What a vile man.
And he clearly lacks the emotional maturity to have a platform
He sounds like a Christian Andrew Tate.
Or a Doug Wilson.
Alpha Male Manosphere Influencer with a Christian coat of paint and GOD and BIBLE as his justification.
Not sure that Dale Partridge,”Dale Partridge says he doesn’t hate women, but he doesn’t think they have the emotional capacity to vote” is working with a full deck of cards.
The church’s website begins with:
“Gospel Centered. Doctrinally Sound.
Our mission is to grow a community of Gospel-fluent families who proclaim Christ in Prescott.”
What does any of this political/social chatter about gender from their pastor have to do with the gospel? Is it doctrinally sound? Are they making disciples or parroting Doug Wilson and Joe Rigney (author of The Sin of Empathy)?
“Suicidal empathy,” but he was caught plagiarizing and fabricating endorsements to boost book sales. Just what other unethical behavior is he hiding from the pulpit?
“He was caught plagiarizing and fabricating endorsements to boost book sales”
The formal name for that is “Juicing the Book” and was the reason why Mark “Deep Throat” Driscoll had to skip town from Seattle to Phoenix. Compared to L Ron Hubbard, the all-time master of Book Juicing, all these guys are rank amateurs.
I think he is a male chauvinistic pig.
He sounds exactly, and I mean *exactly*, like Father Chad Ripperger:
https://wherepeteris.com/fr-rippergers-disturbing-and-harmful-views-on-marriage/
I wonder if Mr. Partridge is super into demons, too. It’s funny how there’s always a market for this message of, “I love women. I just hate everything about them except their (fill in a few body parts and services).”
Jarring photo above. The men are wearing whatever they want, while the women look like refugees from the FLDS compound. This is a harmful cult, and all Christians should repudiate this.
I didn’t notice, because I was looking at the view through the church windows. Nice view! At my church, you see the road on one side and the parking lot on the other.
What worse? Ignorance or stupidity?
You can become informed, but you can’t fix stupid. Or hypocrisy.
I hope Partridge remains on the fringes in the same way that Doug Wilson should. If he and others go mainstream it’s trouble.
Too bad Partridge assumes men have the emotional capacity to vote, but fails to realize the biggest psychological con offered to mankind when the ‘divine right of kings’ excuse lost its sway was that the majority somehow magically has certain rights that individuals do not.
If a pastor is employed as a result of the majority vote from a congregation and is caught sexually abusing children in the church, then is the majority culpable in some way for said criminality? Most church goers say no.
What if he kills his dozens of his victims after he abuses them? At what evil extremes are the majority voters somehow responsible? The same rationale can be applied to voting for the President of the USA.
Thankfully, an enormous amount of people woke up to this fact and did not participate in the 2024 Presidential “election”.
An excellent resource for a moral high ground that all followers of Christ ought to read is: To See the Cage is to Leave it by Etienne de la Boetie2 (a Christian Voluntaryist).
A pastor who claims women shouldn’t vote because they “lack the emotional capacity” isn’t preaching Scripture, he’s projecting fear while ignoring it. The Bible lifts up women as judges, prophets, leaders, and patrons of God’s work: Deborah governed Israel with wisdom and courage (Judges 4–5), the Proverbs 31 woman conducts business and makes decisions with strength and discernment, and Peter declares that in Christ “your sons and your daughters shall prophesy” (Acts 2:17). Paul insists there is “neither male nor female” in Christ (Galatians 3:28), yet “Pastor” Partridge resurrects a hierarchy Scripture dismantles. If emotion disqualifies a person from civic responsibility, then anger, pride, and lust, sins Scripture repeatedly warns men against, should disqualify them first (James 1:19–20). The truth is simple: silencing women isn’t holiness; it’s disobedience to God, arrogance, mysogyny and narcissism, dressed up as piety.
It’s not just good enough to hope that these vile teachings don’t spread – we have to actively promote the truth and teach children.
Here is a good resource for adults:
http://www.thechurch.solutions/equality
In essence, backed up by the Hebrew text:
God’s mind and God’s plans have never changed
God gave man and woman equal authority at creation.
God did not first create a man, but a dual person, single body human called ‘ha-adm’ in Hebrew or ‘the-adam’ in English = ‘the human’.
The woman part was still in ‘the-adam’ when God warned about the tree.
The woman part was involved in naming the animals and rejecting any of them as a companion.
‘Ha-adam’ had no means of reproduction – the woman part was taken out for the benefit of both of them, to be companions for each other.
The woman part was later removed, as the man, now Adam, testified under Holy Spirit inspiration.
Adam was present during the temptation but did nothing, waiting to see what would happen.
Nothing happened when Eve took the fruit and ate. Only after Adam ate were they in trouble
There was no change in their authority after The Fall.
Genesis 5, a summary of the first 1650 years of life, declares that God called them both ‘Adam’.
And so on.
Addendum:
God gave man and woman equal authority over all of Creation, but not over each other.
Authority is explained in detail here:
http://www.thechurch.solutions/mountains
“Then all of the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwell in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the Name of YHWH, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Yerushalayim: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?” Jeremiah 44:15,16,17,18,19
This man misunderstands how Jesus elevated women. He misunderstands the women’s suffrage movement. When there is a fundamentally erroneous belief held by a leader, I am compelled to ask, “why?”. I can come up with two reasons: (1) personal experience that surely affected his views of women (“an alcoholic mother cheated on my father and brought our family through a vicious divorce“, and past addiction to porn, per his own telling of his testimony at relearn.org), and (2) inadequate academic theological preparation to understand doctrine/hermeneutics regarding nuanced Biblical issues (see https://thewartburgwatch.com/tww2/2026/01/30/dale-partridge-started-a-boutique-seminary-but-i-believe-hes-a-theological-lightweight/comment-page-1/ for a description of his studies). I pray that he receives necessary correction to stop him from leading people astray.
The scary part is this type of so called “christianity,” is exactly what every male member of Trump’s cabinet and inner circle advocates.