Claiming divine calling let a wife override her husband’s objections.

Evidence

Broughton was able to convince her husband that she was called by God for missionary work and that “to hinder her would mean death to him.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 608

Categorization

• CANDY: A memorable domestic detail: the wife tells husband and God they must settle it between them who outranks whom.
• XREF: connects to: Refusal of Christian truth could legally count as fornication justifying marriage annulment; Pious women divorce only when husbands block obligatory religious duties; Prioritizing God over husband moved women’s duties outside the home — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 607

Broader Connections

• Pious women divorce only when husbands block obligatory religious duties #expands (0.80)
• Refusal of Christian truth could legally count as fornication justifying marriage annulment #corroborates (0.75)