Far-right commentator Mark Burns, currently in a Republican primary run-off for a U.S. House seat in South Carolina, told an uber-conservative web show host last year that God says, “Man is the leader of his family” and wives are “to be submissive” to their husbands. Referring to the role of a wife, he said, “You’re supposed to obey.” Transcript via Media Matters:
JESSE LEE PETERSON: I gotta ask, do you believe in the order of God in Christ? Christ over man, man over woman and woman over children?
MARK BURNS: Absolutely. 100%. God has a clear order. Right? God is the head. And through his son Yeshua, that we have a commune relationship with the father, we can’t go directly to the father unless we go through the son, the order, that God had created. But then God gave man. Man is the leader of his family. His wife, the Bible says, is to be submissive to her husband. And the children. And so, yes, I 100% believe in the order that God laid out.
PETERSON: Are you the head of your wife?
BURNS: Yes, absolutely.
PETERSON: And does she obey you?
BURNS: Yes. You’re supposed to obey. The submission — a godly woman of God, a godly wife, is a — Proverbs 31st — wife — she aims to follow that submission, submissiveness, to a godly husband.
It won’t surprise you to learn that Burns, who has the support of Donald Trump, has also called for the execution of people who fight for LGBTQ rights.
Right-wing commentator and Trump-backed House candidate Mark Burns: A wife should be “submissive” and “obey” https://t.co/NkE7RC7fun
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