UK Priests tell Wives Submit to your Husbands and be Silent

Ruin the children was a perfect way to put this!

I just couldn't resist! The girls will grow up thinking they're meant to "submit and obey" and the boys will grow up to think women are possessions to be ordered around. GRRRR!! Annie

You are soo right that those children will be ruined by having these men as fathers. If anything...it is men like this that cause divorce.

I don't know what this churches policies are or their doctrine but from what I read they did quote the bible. Funny I don't remember this verse saying anything about being a stepford wife, or the rest of the chapter for that matter. It seems to me they talked about the whole chapter, further down in the article they said they put heavy importance on what the man is to do also, implying they read the whole chapter. But because the translation they used said "submit" people were offended. So I have to wonder how much of this was quoted per verbatim and how much of it was to grab a headline. Did they say people aren't following what was in the chapter or just that women weren't? The fact that they use single quotation marks seems they are quoting a quote and don't have the actual wording but this could just be the difference between the UK and the US. In the US you use single quotation marks if you are quoting someone who is quoting someone else, which is like hearsay or your opinion not necessarily what was said. Congrats on your marriage.

I would not say it is good publicity to bash religion. But I do think it is shocking for a priest in today's day and age to tell women that they are responsible for the increased divorce rate because they don't "submit" to their hushands. Or because they are not "silent". I know that would definately NOT work in my marriage. We would not have last 15 years (and still going)if I had been expect to remain "silent" and "submit" to everything he thinks, says and wants. But then I have a man who not only respects me but likes the fact that I am opinonated, indepedent and intelligent. He is not intimated by it...infact he is proud of it. I would not be with a man that wanted me to be a "stepford wife".

That is a lot of reason why I have problems with orgainzed religion. NO ONE should dominate ANYONE. Everyone should be equal. But try telling the church that.

These were not Catholic priests. The Catholic priests are not allowed to marry and these priests are both married. I will have to re-read the article to remember what religion they are. But it is still shocking in todays day and age for them to say that. Submit my butt...not going to happen.

There are a lot of religions that still teach this. But it really does not have a place in the modern world. I think they will rethink this position. Especially sence it is being reported that people are quiting this church because of these comments.

According them instead of getting a divorce you should have stood back quietly and let you husband bar hop and sleep around. This is crazy. How men can still think like this in the day and age shocks me. Women are not property.

I had to come back to this post because I was thinking about it and you know what. My own personal opinion is that it is changing the face of human through religion. I know this is a midevil line of thinking but I don't see any word of God here when it comes to treating another like a subhuman.