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The Real Problem With Marcus Bachmann (wives submissive to husbands)
Slate ^ | Tuesday, Jul. 5, 2011, at 11:31 AM EDT | Amanda Marcotte

Posted on 07/09/2011 11:57:17 AM PDT by newzjunkey

...In a speech at a mega-church in the Minneapolis area back in 2006, Michele Bachmann explained her decision to pursue tax law. It wasn't her choice, exactly. God had already told her to go to law school; God had also told her to marry a fellow named Marcus Bachmann. Now Marcus told her "to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law." This was not a particular desire of Michele's ("Tax law? I hate taxes!"), but she was certain God was speaking through her husband.

"Why should I go and do something like that?" she recalled thinking. "But the Lord says, 'Be submissive wives; you are to be submissive to your husbands.' "...


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; bachmann; cobra; feminism; marcusbachmann; michelebachmann; progressivism; romanticism; socialism; submissivemyass; weeweewatch
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It's Slate so of course they have to work in attacks on religion and Sarah Palin but they do raise an important point.

How would this doctrine and how she's applied it in her life effect her job as POTUS?

Is this like Bill Clinton's infamous "two for the price of one" which riled so many? Will Republican voting women reject her patriarchal views?

1 posted on 07/09/2011 11:57:25 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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I’m not sure what your problem is? The Bible does command wives to be submissive to their husbands but first it instructs husbands to love their wives. Her husband will not be setting national policy and neither will Todd, if either of their wives become president. And by your pouting were you able to prevent Hillary from giving advice to her husband?


2 posted on 07/09/2011 12:02:24 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: newzjunkey

This is liberal garbage from liberal source.


3 posted on 07/09/2011 12:03:04 PM PDT by RINOs suck
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To: newzjunkey

This is liberal garbage from a liberal source.


4 posted on 07/09/2011 12:03:12 PM PDT by RINOs suck
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To: rabidralph
I’m not sure what your problem is?

He doesn't like Bachmann. That is the problem.

5 posted on 07/09/2011 12:04:02 PM PDT by RINOs suck
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To: newzjunkey

Go back and have a Slurpee with your friends over at Slate...


6 posted on 07/09/2011 12:06:12 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you dropped your bow?")
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To: newzjunkey

This is so stupid - she was kidding when she said she studied tax law just because that’s what her husband suggested. This forum is becoming as bad as the DUmp when it comes to bashing Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann.


7 posted on 07/09/2011 12:08:03 PM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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I wouldn't worry about her becoming POTUS.

Anybody who volunteered for Jimmy Carter,went to his Inaugural Ball, married a guy with a lisp worse than Liberace, and says God told her to be a lawyer for the IRS doesn't have enough of their marbles to get the GOP nomination.

Megalomania is a mental disorder too.

8 posted on 07/09/2011 12:08:20 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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She isn't my first choice either but you can bet that if she's the nominee - we'll vote for her.

That's just the way it is.

9 posted on 07/09/2011 12:09:28 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: newzjunkey
I always laugh when the left tries to teach conservatives about the Bible, as they rarely take quotes in full context and have very little understanding of the Good Book>

Example: Hillary referring to Mary and Joseph as a "homeless couple".

10 posted on 07/09/2011 12:10:14 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
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The media gelded, feminized metrosexual political men of the modern day just cannot stop playing with their little wee wees...

This is why we need more women.

The state of New York for example... dozens of billions in debt, yet all they can do is obsess over their poor little wee wees...


11 posted on 07/09/2011 12:10:16 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you dropped your bow?")
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To: newzjunkey

If Michele Bachmann were Michele Bachmamahad, and Muslim, this article would have an entirely different tone.


12 posted on 07/09/2011 12:10:24 PM PDT by fullchroma
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"Will Republican voting women reject her patriarchal views? "

Yes, I'm quite sure Republican Women will reject her views.

A woman who wants to be the Leader of the Free World would subject her decisions and actions to her husbands' counsel.

While it MAY be a proper role for women...I'll not enter that argument here...it is definitely NOT a proper role for POTUS.

Bachmann is sooo outta here.

13 posted on 07/09/2011 12:11:00 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Oh for pete’s sake, it’s Amanda Marcotte-she’s the worst. She was the Edwards’ chosen blogger. Look how that turned out.


14 posted on 07/09/2011 12:14:41 PM PDT by Neverforget01 (It Could Have Been Worse Is Not A Defense For Bad Policy)
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The country is at war...

We have media gelded, feminized metrosexual men obsessed with their little wee wees...

These little pansies are so insecure over their little wee wees, they have to worry about gay soldiers playing with each other’s wee wees...

They are so insecure in New York, that despite being tens of billions in the hole, all they can think about is their little gay wee wees getting married to other gay little wee wees...

IT IS TIME WE HAD A WOMAN PRESIDENT TELL THESE QUEERS TO STOP PLAYING WITH THEIR LITTLE WEE WEES!!!


15 posted on 07/09/2011 12:17:30 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood
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Bachmann's remark about "wives, be submissive to your husbands" could almost certainly have been taken out of context in that long-ago speech.

She could have said it with a wink and a smile....but "Slate" would never own up to that scenario.

On occasion in the past, I've used or paraphrased this Bible verse in a lighthearted or wry way to make some amusing point or other in regard to married life.

The writers at "Slate" are all sick in the head and amoral in values....and everything they author for their on-line rag has to be viewed in this light.

Leni

16 posted on 07/09/2011 12:18:04 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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Wouldn’t it be easier if you just called her a flake? Or simpler still, say you’d never vote for a conservative broad?


17 posted on 07/09/2011 12:20:06 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Oh, well, any excuse to buy a new gun is good enough for me.)
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To: newzjunkey

If Amanda’s side gets their way, she’s going to find her @$$ in a burqa pretty soon anyway. I don’t know what the hell she is complaining about.


18 posted on 07/09/2011 12:24:24 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
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The signs of her success just keep coming.


19 posted on 07/09/2011 12:26:17 PM PDT by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: MinuteGal

I think the men have become so gelded and feminized by their obsessions and insecurities over their little wee wees, that we need a woman to tell them to grow up and stop playing with themselves...


20 posted on 07/09/2011 12:26:23 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood
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