Well, I guess if your religion doesn't allow sex for fun, beer, or dancing, then controlling one's wife is all that's left.
I must have missed that in the article.
One of our friends was (is still) married to a man who believed all of this.
He keeps all of the family savings in an account that only he has access to. He, a gamefully employed computer programmer, would give her $300 per month for groceries, gas and food. This was supposed to cover expenses for her and the five kids. He forbid her to get a job. When she did, he sold her car.
He would routinely get her up at 2:00 am and lecture her for two hours about submission. He told me that in today's society, that if he tried to be the Biblical leader of the family (as he understood the Bible) he would be in jail.
She has slept with a knife under her pillow for last 5 years.
Well stated. That's about the sum and substance of it, so it seems.