Should Women Submit? Huckabee Says Yes Candidate: Take Nation 'Back For Christ'

WFSB.com Hartford ^ | December 31, 2007 | AP

[LurkedLongEnough]

how blatant

[Yaelle]

As a woman, the thought of submitting to the Huckster... I’m feeling sick.

[brothers4thID]

If he wants to take the nation back for Christ I’m all for it- as long as he does it from the pulpit and not the Oval Office.

[rface]

Ephesians 5:21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

[Abigail Adams]

People always forget the next paragraph in Ephesians 5:

(v. 25) “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...”

That preaches! ;-)

[Domandred]

a wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.

HAHAHAHA I wondered when this was going to show up at FR. If another candidate said that it would have been reported before he got the sentence out of his mouth and there would have been virtual rioting on the blogs and web sites.

[Grig]

This guy is deliberately dividing Americans along religous lines to acquire political power. It is sick and disgusting. He might as well be Benny Hinn or Peter Popoff.

[rintense]

Oh brother... submit to my foot, jackass.

[Jack Black]

No way he’s going to win. It’s all a big media song and dance. The MSM loves this as it gives them a chance to paint the GOP as Christian Taliban, playing into the cultivated fears of the bi-coastal viewers and readers.

Ultimately this helps McCain and Guilliani as there is sure to be a backlash against not just the Huckster, but anyone perceived as “too religious” in the GOP races outside of the Bible Belt.

Think Huckster is going to win GOP races in Connecticut (where this article appears), New York, New Jersey or Florida? California? Washington?

Not a chance.

[Khepri]

Don’t care, he governs as a tax and spend, big government, meddle-in-your-life-liberal nuff said.

[xtinct]

"a wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband"

awww jeez... there goes the independent feminazi vote... (can't help laughing over Huckabee's statement)

[rhombus]

Personally I find Huckabee’s domestic policy to have an arrogant bunker mentality. ;-)

[ansel12]

One thing about the Huckabee/Romney religious issues, is that the media talks about Romney’s imagined religious attacks against his Mormonism, while in reality Huckabee’s religion is truly under open, vicious , constant attack.

Christian bashing is so normal in America, that it really isn’t even usually noticed.

[B Knotts]

OK...I’m certainly not a Huckabee supporter, but this is totally unfair.

What he said in the context of a religious gathering should not be used to clobber him over the head with in a political campaign.

And, I don’t see anything particularly offensive with the sentiments expressed anyhow. Hardly sectarian, really.

[CindyDawg]

I was wondering the other day when I saw this, why the media didn't jump all over this lol. Submit is a positive word that we have changed to a negative. It just means leadership. Someone has to be picked to have the final say. There would be chaos, otherwise. Think about at work. How would it be if the team leader didn't lead and everyone refused to accept any guidance and all did there own thing? The person that wrote this article...do they accept (submit) to the leadership of their supervisor?

Anyway, I say elect though because a woman chooses the leader of the home. If someone goes off on a power trip..well..they can be counseled or impeached:')

[logic]

People always forget the next paragraph in Ephesians 5:

Absolutely correct!!

But please notice that there is no prerequisite for one or the other... they are commands not agreements (not, wives, submit to your husbands because they love you and serve the Lord.. nor, Husbands, love your wives because they submit to the authority the Lord gave you....)

[KC_Conspirator]

"a wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband..."

Oh yeah, he would be a GREAT CANDIDATE. Gonna win alot of votes with that one. Sure, its not like we can lose 49 states like effing Mondale. (sarcasm)

PS - I know that this is a belief in the Baptist church and is inline with Hucksterbee's religion. This will be fodder for the general election.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Ephesians 5: (v. 25) “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...”

Preach it, Sister!

I’m quite the independent type, but this nation never would have LEFT being “Under God” had we had more men in the population that stood up to the NOW Hags and the pig-in-a-poke they sold us years ago.

Yeah. Yeah. Women should’ve been knocking their looney heads together, too.

I may sound like a One Note Wonder on this issue, but I do blame a lot of our social ills on the fact that we got away from what is RIGHT and HOLY and ultimately went with what “feels good.” I’ve made my share of mistakes and have watched other women of my generation do the same; I have a divorce behind me, but finding the right man to love, respect, cherish, build a FAMILY with and be a helpmate to has made a world of difference in my life.

I wish it for every God-fearing woman out there. Don’t sell yourselves short, Ladies! :)

[Tribune7]

Where in the Bible does it say women submit to men?

Wives submit to husbands, yes, but that's not what the headline says.

And this is the command to husbands:

25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
26to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word,
27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—
30for we are members of his body . . .
. . . 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

[KC_Conspirator]

This guy is deliberately dividing Americans along religous lines to acquire political power.

I agree. Its disgusting.