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March 2, 2021, 1:49 pm
The First General Baptist Church in Malden, Missouri is in serious trouble after footage of a recent sermon all about how the ladies need to stay thin and pretty for their husbands blew up online.
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Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark is now facing accusations of serious misogyny as Friendly Atheist and more dug up other past sermons where he said that women need to “look more feminine” and “should not look like butch.”
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Who is Butch? That remains unclear, but he did say that attractive Southern women are called “Southern Belles” and therefore attractive Mexican women should be called “Taco Bells.”
In one of his most recent sermons, he again took up the subject of how women need to maintain the kind of appearance that he finds attractive, which is basically Melania Trump, because otherwise their husbands will cheat on them.
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“Don’t give him a reason to be looking around,” he said. “Don’t let yourself go.”
This, of course, implies that men are beasts who can’t control themselves nearly as well as any decently-trained dog, but he doesn’t seem to mind. In fact, his comments get much worse than that.
“I have a friend. He has put a ‘divorce weight’ on his wife—that’s how important this is,” Clark claimed. “One little boy asked, ‘Why do girls wear make-up and perfume?’ Because they’re ugly and they stink. You don’t want to be ugly and stink.”
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Clark also said that he used to be a marriage counselor, which is somehow an even worse job for him than pastor.
Still, it gets worse, as Clark sunk to the level of becoming a demonstration for why we need to have specific laws against marital rape.
“The wife has no longer all rights over her body, but shares them with her husband,” he said, quoting 1 Corinthians 7:4. “So whenever she’s not in the mood, dig out your Bible.”
The response to these horrifying statements was so intense that in the space of a day, both Clark and the First General Baptist Church took down their Facebook pages, and the church has taken down its YouTube and Vimeo accounts and removed the contact page from their website.
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General Baptist Ministries, which oversees Clark’s church and is not exactly known for being feminist, released a statement saying they’re investigating the content of his sermons.
They also note that Clark has resigned as moderator for the July 2022 General Association of General Baptist meeting.
“General Baptists believe that every woman was created in the image of God, and they should be valued for that reason,” they wrote. “Furthermore, we believe that all individuals regardless of any other factors are so loved by God that Christ died for them.”
*First Published: March 2, 2021, 1:49 pm
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