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The outsting may merit a new separete thread.

I wonder how common it is, and if there is any connection, that denominations that do not allow women to be clergy also have leaders who do a bad job with handling the abuse of women? It feels like there is a connection between telling women that they are second class in the church and also second class in their marriage to going a step even farther to expecting women to tolerate abuse.

I'm not saying many Southern Baptists would agree with Patterson's view on a woman staying with an abuser or not reporting a rape. I'm sure most Southern Baptists are shocked. But it feels like this is what you ultimately get when people teach a theology where women aren't equal to men.