Minn. gubernatorial candidate: Wives honor the Lord with submission to their husbands [View all]
Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Paul Gazelka — who sent his child to conversion therapy and pushed the falsehood that sexual assault can turn women gay – tried to use the Bible to justify his idea that wives must submit to their husbands or bear the consequences. Multiple pastors disagree.
The former Minnesota state senate majority leader wrote his 2003 book, “Market Place Ministers,” as a guide for those who want to bring Christian ministry into business. In the first half of the book, Gazelka tells his own story of becoming a combined minister-businessman. The second half is his roadmap to success for those who wish to do the same. In the final chapter he “addresses a godly strategy for reaping the End-Times harvest.”
In that section, Gazelka writes on his interpretation of Christian power dynamics and raises Ephesians 5:22-24 (of the New American Standard Bible): “Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.”
He goes on to say a wife “honors the Lord with submission to her husband. But if a wife refuses to honor her husband in this relationship, she will find that her children do not submit properly to her co-authority over them. She will reap what she sows.”
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