Huckabee Signed 'USA Today' Ad Backing Idea of Wife as 'Servant'

By: E&P Staff Mike Huckabee and his wife, Janet, in 1988 signed a full-page ad in USA Today backing the idea of the wife in any marriage serving as a "servant" in relation to her husband.

Then-Gov. Huckabee was one of 131 signatories on the full-page USA Today ad backing a controversial position on the role of women in marriage that had been adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention: ?A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.?

The ad Huckabee signed congratulated the convention: ?You are right because you called wives to graciously submit to their husband?s sacrificial leadership.?

Where is this notion rooted?

In a recent blog item defending Huckabee's view, Lee Webb, news anchor at Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network, wrote that the apostle Paul's "directive that wives should submit to their husbands and husbands should love their wives is found in Ephesians 5:22-33. Many in the church would have us to believe this passage is simply a cultural ordinance, in other words, no longer applicable in our modern, more evolved society. Read Ephesians 5:31 and you'll discover that Paul is rooting his directive back to Creation. That means it does apply to us today."

Huckabee on Sunday said he stood by another 1998 comment in which he said, "I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."

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