Graham fused patriarchal family structure with Christian nationalism

Evidence

For Graham, the stability of the home was key to both morality and security: “A nation is only as strong as her homes.” In the evangelical worldview, Satan and the communists were united in an effort to destroy the American home. And for Graham, a properly ordered family was a patriarchal one. Because Graham believed that God had cursed women to be under man’s rule, he believed that wives must submit to husbands’ authority. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 63

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s core thesis about how gender ideology and nationalism were fused decades before Trump. — connects to: Billy Graham fused Christian identity with American patriotism as early as the 1950s — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 237
• SEED: Angle: the ‘curse of Eve’ as a live theological premise that still structures American evangelical gender teaching.