In a small article titled 4 ultra-conservative Christian patriarchs who make Jim Bob Duggar seem like a champion of women’s liberation, Raw Story has effectively distilled Douglas Wilson’s theology into two paragraphs that explain Jamin Wight and Steven Sitler better than anything I’ve ever read. Here’s an excerpt from the piece:

Douglas Wilson
Author of “Reforming Marriage,” “Federal Husband,” and “Future Men,” Doug Wilson is the senior minister at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho who writes on a variety of topics at Blog & Mablog.

Here’s a small sample of Wilson’s views concerning the “biblical concepts of true authority and submission”:

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts. This is of course offensive to all egalitarians. . . But we cannot make gravity disappear just because we dislike it, and in the same way we find that our banished authority and submission comes back to us in pathological forms. This is what lies behind sexual “bondage and submission games,” along with very common rape fantasies. Men dream of being rapists, and women find themselves wistfully reading novels in which someone ravishes the “soon to be made willing” heroine.

Never mind that Wilson sincerely believes Christian women are prettier than unbelieving “lumberjack dykes” . . . there’s so much more to dislike about this pastor than his infuriatingly misogynistic blog posts. Along with defending slave ownership, Wilson is being strongly criticized for his role in facilitating the marriage of a young woman to a confessed serial pedophile as well as aiding and abetting a child predator who groomed and sexually molested a 13-year-old daughter of a Christ Church member family. . . . Continue Reading →

If you plan to send your daughter to New Saint Andrews College, then you should consider Mr. Wilson’s words carefully because he really means them. And when two of his followers were prosecuted for violent rape, he advocated on their behalf, urging their respective judges to show leniency.