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Ozy_Flame · 03-22-2019, 03:13 PM

Not even three days since appointment. I hope he can keep his bible thumping out of politics.

UCP candidate and pastor slammed for sermon comment that wives should ‘submit’ to their husbands

“Wives, respect your husbands. Submit to your husbands. Husbands, love your wives,” the pastor said in the clip.

The UCP named Wong Thursday as the replacement for Caylan Ford in the Alberta election race.

Ford resigned after Facebook messages surfaced this week in which she promoted racist white supremacist talking points, saying among other things that she is “somewhat saddened by the demographic replacement of white peoples in their homelands.”

UCP spokesperson Matt Solberg defended Wong Friday, saying in an email: “It should come as no surprise that a pastor quoted the Bible (Ephesians 5) while delivering a sermon.”

The full Bible verse Solberg referenced reads: “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”

03-22-2019, 03:13 PM	#117
Ozy_Flame Posted the 6 millionth post! Join Date: Feb 2002 Exp:	Not even three days since appointment. I hope he can keep his bible thumping out of politics. UCP candidate and pastor slammed for sermon comment that wives should ‘submit’ to their husbands “Wives, respect your husbands. Submit to your husbands. Husbands, love your wives,” the pastor said in the clip. The UCP named Wong Thursday as the replacement for Caylan Ford in the Alberta election race. Ford resigned after Facebook messages surfaced this week in which she promoted racist white supremacist talking points, saying among other things that she is “somewhat saddened by the demographic replacement of white peoples in their homelands.” UCP spokesperson Matt Solberg defended Wong Friday, saying in an email: “It should come as no surprise that a pastor quoted the Bible (Ephesians 5) while delivering a sermon.” The full Bible verse Solberg referenced reads: “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”