Southern Baptist scholar says spousal abuse stems from wife’s refusal to submit to husbands.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/30/southern-baptist-scholar-says-spousal-abuse-stems-from-wife%e2%80%99s-refusal-to-submit-to-husbands/

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Bruce Ware — a Southern Baptist scholar – argued that one reason that men abuse their wives is because women rebel against their husband’s God-given authority:

“And husbands on their parts, because they’re sinners, now respond to that threat to their authority either by being abusive, which is of course one of the ways men can respond when their authority is challenged - -or, more commonly, to become passive, acquiescent, and simply not asserting the leadership they ought to as men in their homes and in churches,” Ware said from the pulpit of Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas.

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