Women in the Family

Someone alerted me to an article on line in a F. publication - I tried to read some of it, but it dripped with so much PR tripe that I wanted to puke. Here's the URL:

www.thefamily.orgdossier/statements/women.htm

So, I got out my trusty Indexes and found this choice tidbit from the master manipulator himself from the letter "Get it Together":
Get it Together - #123 – 6.10.70

17 – I’ve got a notion that the next time I hear of a wife that is not willing to submit to her husband – after being admonished in the presence of a few witnesses – we’ll take her in front of the whole congregation and make her submit to her husband – right here!—Laying you out right here and letting him do it right in front of us all! If you won’t do it in the privacy of your own bedroom, complaining about how badly your husband’s been treating you, why not go through the motions and let us see what’s wrong – See how good a lover he is! He’s not willing to woo her and she’s not willing to submit! If we get anymore of these husband/wife complaints, we are going to have it out on the ground and see what the problem is! Maybe that little threat will help some of you!

18 –That’s what I came down to talk to all of you about: the rest is thrown in for extras! They did some things like that in the Old Testament, why not now? I’m telling you that if you are guilty, you deserve that much. How many wives submit yourselves as the True Church submits herself to Christ? Have you been submitting yourself to him like Jesus? He represents Jesus to you! He’s an illustration of Jesus!

19 – Watch out for the situation where there’s no parallel in the spiritual for your actions in the realm of the physical! In the church of Jesus Christ there is no male or female! Your damn sex organs don’t mean a thing to God! In the operation of the spiritual gifts there is true equality for women! He promised to pour out His Spirit upon his sons and daughters! But when it comes to the operation of sex and the home and the husband/wife relationship, God has made it very clear who’s the boss!

20. – Do you believe the bible? Then why don’t you do it! You’re breaking the commandment of God everytime you refuse! You don’t have to feel like it—but it would be better if you did! He doesn’t have to be romantic—but it would be better if he was! But you better submit! How are we going to have a Revolution for Jesus if you can’t even love your husband or wife, your brothers or sister, whom you have seen!

21 - If you don’t get the point, I’ll feel justified to use this point (cane) on you! Do you hear that Betty, Gail, Connie, Nancy, Claudia, Kathy? I am the final trouble-shooter! God will use us, as your parents in the Lord! We went over some of these passages when you got married and you were asked if you believed them: Not good for a man to be alone…a virtuous woman is a crown to her husband…the marriage bed is undefiled!

22 – There’s nothing wrong with your husband fucking you, girls! It won’t hurt your saintliness! But it will shoot holes in your ego and in your pride! “Benevolence”==Bene volence: good moving! – Begins with you guys!—Means some love-making and some old-fashioned necking and kissing! Start it off with some good moving lovemaking! Some of you guys ride her like a horse!—Get on and get off! No wonder she does some bucking!

23 – Good lovemaking begins with true love. The best teacher is God! Begin with that point! “Render unto the wife due benevolence.” Sometimes you get more out of it than you put in. They’re being born all over the place! Praise God! Nobody wants to make love to a corpse or ride a polished log! Give him some cooperation! Or are you just thinking of your own selfish interests? I told one brother: “One way or the other you’re going to have a better wife!” I’ll say the same thing to you now, Girls: One way or the other, your husband is going to have a better wife!

24 - you have the sweetest, humblest husbands around, because they are the only ones who will put up with you! 1 Cor. 7:15. If your wife won’t listen to you, take some friends to talk t her, and if she won’t listen to them, maybe we will have to show her what a good wife should be in front of the congregation!—Maybe help you learn something! But maybe that just doesn’t excite you!

25 – But marriage is a lot more than just fucking! There’s a higher love—Agape! Eros is a small part of it. But breakdown of eros means there is something wrong with the philos or agape. We’ll get you in front here and find out what’s wrong with your eros! You are to honour your husband and give reverence unto him. That’s a commandment of God! Are you afraid of him?—You should be! It doesn’t say, Provided he fits my idea of a hero, or provided he treats me the way I want to be treated! It says obey because he is the likeness of God to you! Your position is that of the Church to Christ! Is that clear? If you don’t start doing better real fast, then God will start doing better for him! (Deut. 24:1)

26 – Jesus makes it harder in the New Testament: More rigid—also more love—Can only divorce for fornication or adultery. She’s getting some loving elsewhere—and loving herself. Fucking herself and polluting her soul by going after other gods. If you’re not performing according to Scripture, we’ll be rough on you in order to get some of the pride out of you and save your soul! Been cheating on your husband?—You do so by denying him his privileges. Respect that. When you want to pray, you have to agree! Are you so holy and sanctimonious that you feel right in withholding your body from your husband?—That’s enough to make any man enraged!—Denying God and breaking commandments of Christ, when you withhold your body from you husband!

27 – Confess to beating up your husband and withholding your body from your husband!—It’s not the wife’s place to do so! “They rod and thy staff they comfort me.” What you girls need is some of that rod, some good old-fashioned New Testament discipline! How long did you think you could get away with it?—Going around crying on other people’s shoulders about how mean your husband is when you’re denying him his due? It’s a whole lot better with love, but it’s your due to obey whether there’s love or not!—Whether he decides to treat you like a little goddess or not! I never took that kind of thing from my wife!—And if she resisted, I let her have it!—And if that won’t work—submit her to God, who will take care of it! You may find it is better to let him have what he wants than to suffer some other way!

28 – You were made to be a helpmeet: to help his meet! “Wives submit yourselves to your husbands.” That means you do whatever he wants! Excluding sexual perversions – because it is unhealthy. It is better to marry than to burn! Better to let him marry you nightly than to make him burn! Watch out for sexual perversions: they are unhealthy and unscriptural, but as far as plain old-fashioned fucking—there’s no law against it! There’s nothing wring with your body. God made it to feel that way!

29 – Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands as unto the Lord. Have you been doing that? For the husband is the head f the wife even as Christ is the head of the Church, husbands love your wives. Therefore, as the Church is subject unto Christ, let the wives be subject unto their own husbands” – because he is the type of Christ as you are the type of church.

35 - And the “wives should reverence their husbands.” Sara called her husband “lord”! If you don’t like this, get the hell out of here, because this is from the Bible!—Our Revolutionary Handbook! The only reason it hasn’t caused a Revolution until now is because no one has followed it closely all the way!

36 - ……You say you loved your husband – you may have to show it to me! So let’s not hear any more reports like this! Amen?