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Published January 14, 2015
A British pastor offended his parishioners by encouraging women to "be silent" and "submit" to their husbands, The Sun reported Saturday.
Church of England reverend Angus MacLeay issued a leaflet to churchgoers saying that women should not speak if questions could be answered by their husbands.
The leaflet, entitled The Role of Women in the Local Church, adds that wives should "submit to their husbands in everything."
It continues, "Wives are to submit to their husbands in everything in recognition of the fact that husbands are head of the family as Christ is head of the church.
"This is the way God has ordered their relationships with each other and Christian marriage cannot function well without it."
Dozens of women canceled their membership at St. Nicholas Church in Kent, England, where married MacLeay is rector after the leaflet was handed out.
Last Sunday, the curate at the same church delivered a medieval-style sermon called Marriage and Women, telling women to submit to their husbands to make marriage work.
Reverend Mark Oden, a married father-of-three, told the congregation, "We know marriage is not working.
"We only need to look at figures - one in four children has divorced parents. Wives, submit to your own husbands."
During the sermon, Rev. Oden also blamed "modern woman" for the high divorce rates in the U.K.
One female member of the church said she was "disgusted" by the sermon and will no longer be attending that church, adding, "How can they talk that way in the 21st Century?
"No wonder the church is losing touch if this is the kind of gobbledegook they want us to believe in."
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