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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">AA]&nbsp;Pastor tells congregation 'the best person to rape is your wife'</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">David Badash The New Civil Rights Movement November 23, 2021</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>A Seventh-day Adventist pastor told his Bronx, New York congregation that wives belong to their husbands,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;as property,&nbsp;</span>and they must "submit" themselves to their husbands, even if that means being raped by them.</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Wives, you must submit to your husbands," Pastor Burnett Robinson said, as shown in the video below.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>"I would say to you gentlemen, the best person to rape is your wife,</b>" he added in his November 13 sermon, as Religion News Service reports.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"In this matter of submission, I want you to know upfront ladies, that once you get married, you are no longer your own. You are your husband's. You understand what I'm saying? I emphasize that because I saw in court the other day on TV where a lady sued her husband for rape. And I would say to you gentlemen, the best person to rape is your wife. But then it has become legalized."</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>RNS notes that "Robinson was apparently preaching from a passage from the New Testament's Letter to the Ephesians, in which the Apostle Paul says, 'Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.'"</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>A Change.org petition with over 1100 signatures is calling for Robinson's resignation.</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Grand Concourse Seventh-day Adventist church has apologized</b>&nbsp;and placed the pastor on leave, according to its website. Robinson has led that church as senior pastor since 2013.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This author will not post the video directly, but it can be seen here.</font></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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