20 Jun 2013 12:47 pm
The Latest Trend In Christianity: Beating Your Wife For JesusOn a pain scale of one to 10, Chelsea ranks the epidural-free birth of her child as a six. Her husbands spankings? Those are an eight.First, he uses his hands for warm-up slaps. Then comes a combination of tools based on the specific infraction. The wooden spoon is the least severe; for the worst rule-breaking like texting while driving (It could kill me, Chelsea admits) or moving money between accounts without his permission she'll be hit with something else: a hairbrush, a paddle, or a leather strap.But this isnt domestic abuse, Chelsea says. This is for Jesus.Chelsea and her husband Clint, who asked that I use only their first names, belong to a small subculture of religious couples who practice 'Christian Domestic Discipline,' a lifestyle that calls for a wife to be completely submissive to her husband. Referred to as CDD by its followers, the practice often includes spanking and other types corporal punishments administered by husbands and ostensibly ordained by God.(...)When a wife breaks her husband's rules-rolling her eyes, maybe, or just feeling "meh," as one blogger put it-that can equal punishments which are often corporal but can also be "corner time"; writing lines (think "I will not disobey my master" 1,000 times); losing a privilege like internet access; or being "humbled" by some sort of nude humiliation. Some practice "maintenance spanking," wherein good girls are slapped on a schedule to remind them who's boss; some dont.Read more at link in title.Domestic abuse under the guise of religion.How nice.