The Solution To High Divorce Rates? Bring Back Submissive Wives
February 19, 2010 3 Comments
Almost half of marriages end in divorce these days.
“Why?” you ask.
Well clearly it’s because women no longer submit to their husbands!
At least according to Rev Mark Oden in Kent, England.
The Rev has started a row within his church and has since tried to cover his tracks by insisting that men also need to help around the house, but I doubt it will do any good.
Once the people of the congregation hear that he thinks a woman is there simply to serve her husband, I doubt that suggesting men help around the house will help ease their anger at him.
The church’s rector is also against equality and belongs to an organisation called “Reform… a Church of England movement that opposes the ordination of women bishops.”
The Rev claims that most people in his church support him in these “medieval” views and have sent him messages and gifts of thanks.
It’s hard to know what the truth is here because “one member of the 800-strong congregation told a local newspaper that people were flocking away from the church and that several had retracted their charitable standing orders.”
I certainly hope people are leaving the church because in this day and age we want to encourage equality, not discrimination and misogyny.
During yesterday’s sermon Mr Oden said he wished to make it clear that he did not believe women were “weaker intellectually” but that it was “an eternal principle that women are physically weaker than men”.
So because women are weaker physically they must submit to their husbands wishes? Does this mean that if she doesn’t agree with her husband it’s okay if he physically overpowers her to get his way? It must be otherwise what purpose would there be in her submitting in the first place?
He sounds like an abusive husband to me and certainly doesn’t have ‘Christian values’ in the sense that we should treat everyone with respect.
I would certainly hate to be his wife and I feel sorry for his daughters.
He asked “The Times not interview his wife about the sermon”.
Maybe he was worried she would have an opinion. Probably not though, he quashed that out of her years ago.
Divorce rates are actually much lower than that. The statistic of half of marriages ending in divorce only applies to marriages begun in the 1970s.
Less than a third of marriages starting in the 1990s will end in divorce, according to experts. (Mick)
How about it being mans turn to be submissive? Marriage is a meaningless practice this day and age. I will never get married or have children because that’s what society expects me to do as a woman. Forget the past. Times are different. If you can’t keep up, your going the way of the dinosaurs.
This guy needs to pass away like the rest of the older men that seek to oppress women. Once those generations are dead, the world will be a better place.