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Michele Bachmann’s Bible Submissiveness: Is It a Problem?

The lawmaker follows the biblical injunction that women should obey their husbands. Is that problem?

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“The Lord says be submissive. Wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.” – Michele Bachmann, October 2006.

There’s nothing unusual about a conservative evangelical woman quoting the biblical admonition that wives submit to their husbands.

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