Independent Fundamental Baptist leaders promoted masculine power, firearms, and female submission from 1972 onward.

Evidence

As far back as 1972, influential pastor Jack Hyles had been telling Christian parents to toughen up their boys, advocating corporal punishment and training in firearms in order to raise a generation of young men who wouldn’t capitulate to enemies like the North Vietnamese. His was a gospel of masculine power and female submission. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 645

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s central thesis of militant masculinity as the organizing core of white evangelical identity — this is a pre-2016 instance of the same values being instilled.