I don't see how that makes a difference. She still obeyed her husband because she felt she was correctly interpreting the bible. MCWAY's reply doesn't address this, he only tries to show that she may have misinterpreted the bible if she does in fact believe "always" which she has not said that she does not. She still obeyed her husband when it conflicted with her own wants and desires, because of her interpretation of the bible, and that is the point of the article isn't it? MCWAY never proved that she did not do this, or would not do it always if elected.
Although this does make one wonder: If a wife is suppose to submit to her husband only insofar as her husband tells things that are christian and falls under the guidelines of what she believes to be god-like (to use MCWAY's term) then why even put in the "submit to your husband" part? Just submitting to God and only God would automatically include following God's orders via husbands. Just going by my first thought, the only way "Submit to your husbands" can be significant in and of itself is if what the husband says does not automatically fall under god-like behavior and there may be doubt, and in that doubt one should submit to one's husband. Your take?
Obviously a husband telling his wife to go rob a bank is not something she should "obey" and carry out.
I see what you are saying in your second paragraph, but let's look at the Scripture in Eph 5:24 which uses the word "everything" to assume that the writers inference as well as Bachmann's statement meant "always."
Eph 5:24"Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."
Would the church (body of believers) submit to Christ in anything that would go against His Godly nature? If someone shows up on earth that people worship as a god, and makes it that all people receive a mark on the forehead or hand and to buy and sell, is that Christ? We know from Revelation that is not Christ but that is anti-christ.
AS THE CHURCH SUBMITS TO CHRIST, wives should submit as well.
Is the problem that people think that Bachmann's husband would be the actual President? Reminds me of what people used to say the other way round about Bill and Hillary!
You may find it interesting to read the surrounding text and what it says to the husband as well:
Eph 5:21-33Instructions for Christian Households
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 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. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body.
31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[c] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
We could talk about it more on relig. if you want!
