Wow! I'm in shock. We can actually agree on something? .
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > Submission has nothing to do with whether or not it is coerced. > Submission is submission even when it is voluntarily. I think that > submission is a fine thing. And some people can compartmentalize their > submission. I know some very strong, powerful, people who are firm > leaders in their work lives who are willingly submissive in their > private lives. It can be wonderful to let go of the responsibility to > lead and to hand over the power and all the headaches that go with it > to another. > > When Bachmann and others in the more conservative Christian vein talk > about a wife submitting to their husband, they mean willing > submission, no doubt. And all leaders should listen to the opinions > and desires of those who submit to them. None the less, the reason > that they call it "submission" is that at the end of the day, the role > of the submissive is to submit to the will of the one they are > submissive to. There very well may be mutually understood limits to > the submission, such as it being confined to family matters and around > the home but not extending out into the professional world. > > A number of more fundamentalist sects take a rather wide-ranging view > on the purview of a wife submitting to a husband. I do not know > whether Bachmann feels that a wife should be submissive to her husband > in all areas of their life or whether she means it solely within the > realm of their marriage and home life. Given her rather fundamentalist > views on other matters, I'd certainly be leery. But then again, all > the other fundamentalist views are why I wouldn't vote for her anyway, > so the particulars of this one area are largely moot for me. But just > because she says that women should be submissive to their husbands > doesn't necessarily mean that it would require her to potentially > compromise her position as an elected leader. > > Judah > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:339924 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
