{"id":2325,"date":"2012-02-27T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/02\/the-mis-education-of-whitney-houston.html"},"modified":"2012-02-27T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T12:14:00","slug":"the-mis-education-of-whitney-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/02\/the-mis-education-of-whitney-houston.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mis-education of Whitney Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

by Frances Cudjoe Waters
Huffington Post<\/p>\n

We have been riveted by the tragedy of Whitney Houston\u2019s untimely death. Accounts of drug use and a fallen icon have flooded the media. Yet, little has been said about how herself-professed faith may have contributed to both her downfall and eventual escape from an unhealthy marriage relationship.<\/p>\n

In her last major interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2009, Whitney states that she stayed in the marriage, endured abuse, infidelity and humiliation and engaged in self-destructive behaviors in her effort to be a \u201cgood\u201d Christian wife. No matter what happened, she felt she had to remain because as she quotes, \u201cWhat God has brought together, let no man put asunder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, Whitney\u2019s statements about letting, indeed inviting, her husband \u201cto take control of her life,\u201d and that a wife must do whatever her husband says is not a new concept. In fact, the concept of women being required, as a matter of faith and faithfulness, \u201cto submit\u201d to their husbands in all things is the pervasive normative gospel preached in churches across racial, denominational and geographical lines. Ephesians 5:22-24, which outlines a wife\u2019s duty to submit, is often taught without context or nuance. Rarely is the verse above it, which says to \u201csubmit to one another,\u201d discussed. Moreover, the last verses of the chapter which make it clear that a man would not hate or hurt his own body, do not get much airplay in the church either.
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