Pastor Tells Men: “The Best Person to Rape is Your Wife” by Sarah Einselen
(Update Below)
Another indication of why single, Christian women especially should never, ever take any type of dating advice by Christians…
Because if Christian pastors are teaching it’s acceptable for married men to rape their wives, you can feel sure in assuming such men and their churches or denominations won’t have YOUR best interests at heart if you are a single woman.
You – if you are a woman, whether you are married or single – need to look out for you and not expect to get loving, wise counsel from such sexist douche waffles, like this male pastor, who always prioritize the feelings and needs of men above that of women.
Contrary to what this guy is teaching, yes ladies, you are your own; you have a right to have boundaries. Here we go again with patriarchal, complementarian Christian men assuming that Codependent relationship habits for women are “biblical,” though the God of the Bible frowns on Codependent behavior in EITHER biological sex (men or women).
Also, the “equally yoked” rule is bunk. If you’re a single, Christian woman, don’t limit yourself to only dating Christian men – because some of these self-professing Christian men are dirt bags who have no regard for women; you’d be better off dating and marrying an ethical, loving NON-Christian man than a dirt-bag Christian one who thinks it’s acceptable for a husband to rape his own wife.
(Link): Pastor Tells Men: “The Best Person to Rape is Your Wife” by Sarah Einselen
Nov 22, 2021
A New York pastor recently told men in a video clip posted on YouTube that “the best person to rape is your wife.”
The pastor, Dr. Burnett L. Robinson, is senior pastor of (Link): Grand Concourse Seventh-Day Adventist Temple in New York City. And in the clip, Robinson urges womento submit to their husbands and tells them, “In this matter of submission, I want you to know up front, ladies, that once you get married, you are no longer your own. You are your husband’s!”
Robinson then expresses dismay that a woman can sue her husband for rape and states, “I would say to you, gentlemen, the best person to rape is your wife.”
The video was posted by Sarah McDugal, an advocate and abuse recovery coach.
(link to You Tube video: Pastor Promotes Rape & Abuse from the Pulpit)
But the doctrine he preached is common in some fundamentalist evangelical circles, too.
The Duggar family’s church teaches women that they’re required to provide sex whenever their husbands want. And Lori Alexander, whose blog “The Transformed Wife” has more than 128,000 fans on Facebook, has also said wives are (Link): obliged to have sex even when they don’t feel like it.
…Author and advocate (Link): Rebecca Davis said Robinson’s use of this passage is “a perfect example of twisting Scriptures” to accept abuse.
Robinson “is saying you are not your own, you belong to your husband,” Davis said. “But the Scriptures say you are not your own, you belong to the Lord. That is a huge difference. So what he’s doing is putting this earthly authority over you in the place of God. That is promoting idolatry, promoting a godlike status for the husband and it ends up being heresy.”
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You can read the rest of that page (Link): here (on the Roys Report site), and there is an update at the bottom of it)
Update
(Link): Pastor Who Called on Men to Rape Their Wives Resigns
Excerpt:
“Pastor Burnett Robinson has resigned as the Senior Pastor of the Grand Concourse Seventh-day Adventist Church,” a spokesman for the SDA’s regional conference said in an email this morning.
…Robinson apologized earlier, the Greater New York Conference indicated Monday. They said he “deeply regrets the statement and knows it caused injury and has given an unqualified apology.”
The conference also stated Monday that conference representatives had met with Robinson and placed him on immediate administrative leave.
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