Once I finally came face to face with the ugliness and pervasiveness of historical patriarchy, I realized that rather than being different from the world, Christians were just like everyone else in their treatment of women. When Dobson upheld a battered woman’s desire to remain with her husband, he was just one more voice in more than four thousand years of history that agreed: women’s place is under the power of men.
-Beth Allison Barr
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