North Carolina GOP candidate Mark Harris believes that wives should submit to their husbands.
Per a report from Roll Call, Harris, a Baptist preacher, has on multiple occasions made statements that women should submit fully to their husbands. He has also preached that homosexuality is a choice.
Harris defeated current 9th District representative Robert Pittenger, and faces a challenge from democrat Dan McCready for the seat.
McCready jumped on the report, taking to Twitter to respond.
Interviewed by Roll Call, Harris attempted to walk back his statements.
“I say [to the husband], ‘Here’s how this works. You’ve got to love your wife with an incredible love that can only come through Christ,'” said Harris. “It’s really submitting one to another in a relationship.”
In his sermons, Harris has often cited Ephesians 5:22, which states “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord,” as well as 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.”
He has also said that God “ordained” that women should submit to their husbands.
Harris has run for the seat before, but has not been successful. In his 2013 run, he spoke out against homosexuality. His views have not changed since then.
“It is still a choice. I do still stand by that,” said Harris.
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