Emphasis on male authority correlates with twisted scandal justifications

Evidence

The most conservative corners of the evangelical subculture were also not immune to scandal. Far from it: the more an evangelical leader emphasized male authority and female submission, the more twisted his justifications for any personal scandal. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 636

Categorization

• XREF: Direct payoff of the book’s core causal claim — the hierarchy subculture generates the very scandals it claimed to prevent — building on the women’s-submission arguments from earlier chapters. — connects to: Male leaders exploited women’s internal disputes to justify male control — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 753