The Southern Baptist Conference is under investigation by the Department of Justice due to numerous claims of egregious sexual abuse and sexual harassment within the denomination. Perhaps people wonder why there is such an overabundance of sexual misconduct of various kinds within evangelical circles. The truth is that many believers in Christ have struggled with what was right and wrong in regards to their genitalia. Is the creator of the universe worried about our private areas? For most conservative evangelical Christians, it is apparently all God thinks about. As an ordained and evangelically trained minister, I tend to disagree.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. — Ephesians 5
I can barely get through one week of evangelical radio where this scripture […]
Interesting article, but not so sure about your intro comment: oh, sure, the patriarchy and all, but I bet many women view their anti-abortion stance as their own based on their religious beliefs that abortion is murder or their conservative view that good girls don’t. Shared by their husbands, surely, but not imposed. And sure, it’s not in their own interest, but then, except for the very rich, voting Trump wasn’t either.