Complementarian teaching required wives to accept domineering husbands as sinners to forgive.

Evidence

No man would fulfill his role perfectly, Elliot reminded her daughter: “You marry a sinner,” and “you love, accept and forgive that sinner.” A woman should also accept the fact that she marries a man: “He is likely to be bigger and louder and tougher and hungrier and dirtier” than expected. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 153

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Complementarian teachers blamed women for men’s sexual behavior — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 640
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Complementarian teachers blamed women for men’s sexual behavior — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 640