General Discussion

and their views on women and children being submissive to men. The people who actually run Rethuglican politics these days. Modern fundies will try to dance all around Ephesians 5:22, 1 Peter 3:1, 1 Timothy 2:12, 1 Corinthians 11:3, Titus 2:5, ad nauseam, but it says what it says and fundigelicals believe and practice what it says.

Woman are to keep their mouths shut and have no authority over men whatsoever....

1 Timothy 2: 11-15 11 Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. 15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

When you have people who firmly believe such bullshit, it's not a terribly far stretch towards what amounts to underage trafficking and rape. After all, a woman's purpose is simply procreation and doing whatever the hell she's told - so the Evilgelicals believe. Sure, those verses tell men to "love their wives as Christ loves the church", but there's no safety valve mentioned for women if men don't. "Boys will be boys" they say. Such bullshit.

Post script... This is the reason they hate apostates like me so much. We know the playbook and they ain't fooling us one bit.