http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...rriage13m.html
(bolded emphasis mine)

So, is this what fundamentalist Christian marriage counseling is all about? Wives should shut their traps and make their husbands happy - to serve God. OK, fine - but I don't want my tax dollars being spent on that.

I hope they're forced to pay every penny back, plus interest.

Take the Northwest Marriage Institutes' Marriage Quiz:
http://www.northwestmarriage.org/cgi...hemarriagequiz
(I didn't take the quiz - it looks like you have to give your email address to get the results)

Here are some of the religious-based questions from the quiz (I have no idea what the proper answers would be):

2: According to the Bible, what is the underlying cause of EVERY problem in marriage?
-Lack of communication
-Lack of faith in God
-Selfishness
-Lack of submission or failure to submit

7: The biblical prescription to avoid lust (pornography, etc.) is:
-Pursue sex with one’s own wife
-Build a relationship with one’s own wife
-Lust after one’s own wife
-Lust, even if one lusts after a woman other than his own wife, must only be satisfied with one’s own wife.

18: When the Bible says that the “husband is the head of the wife” it means:
-The husband always has the final say on all matters
-The husband is in a position of honor above the wife
-The husband’s behavior is the model for the wife’s behavior. In other words, husbands are required to “go first” or do what is good, beneficial, and necessary first.
-None of the above

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Again, I don't know the answers to some of these questions. I'm sure they'd like to enlighten me, though. I'm dying to know the answer to #18.

I heard about this on the radio yesterday. I wish I could say it was unbelievable or shocking, but the reality is that it was just inevitable. Bush's whole faith-based initiative is near the top of my list of his (and the legislative branch's) most stupendous fuck ups. I see the whole program as heinous violation of the religious freedom granted by the Constitution. I applaud the fact that some members of the religious community still seem to uphold the idea of keeping church and state separate.

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Took the words right out of my mouth.

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18. (The correct answer was The husband’s behavior is the model for the wife’s behavior. In other words, husbands are required to “go first” or do what is good, beneficial, and necessary first.)

The other correct answers seemed also to be on the sensible side.

At least when I tried to choose the most wacky choise there was I didn't grade very well.

Don't you have some free email account dedicated for junk mail only?

I hope this is a sign of more to come.

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Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

I hope so too. We'll see. A court decision that supports separation of church and state could end up having some pretty far-reaching effects.

I used to, but I let it die.