Brian Beutler talks with a former member of the Institute For Basic Life Principles, the conservative Christian outfit that counts among its members Dan Webster, the GOP nominee running against Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL). The uber-patriarchal institute is big on the scriptural edicts that a wife should submit to her husband.
“There’s very clearly delineated roles for women, and those roles are all based on submission, they’re based on self denial, on obedience, and respect, and even the word respect translates into ‘you just take it, and with a smile,'” the former member, a woman, told us. “Because that’s how God would have you respond to tyranny and abuse.”
