Dan Webster's Religious Guru's Advice For Women "Like Sharia Law," Says Noted Author

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/10/3/162448/231/Front_Page/Dan_Webster_s_Religious_Guru_s_Advice_For_Women_quot_Like_Sharia_Law_quot_Says_Noted_Author

"In their advice to women, the books read like sharia law, with strict instructions on how to dress, date, and run a home, and with strict consequences for disobedience." - Hanna Rosin, God's Harvard, page 92

"Once they are married, the husband "gives the law" and the wife "works out the proper procedure to carry it out." Equal authority in marriage is "Satan's goal." The key to a happy marriage is "the wife's submission and the husband's sacrifice." - Rosin, quoting Bill Gothard, page 93

"I enjoy the advice he's given. I think it's been a major part of my life. I'm not ashamed of that. What he has said I believe to be the truth." - Daniel Webster, on Bill Gothard, 1997

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As I've detailed in a recent Alternet story, Daniel Webster's intimate, over three decade long involvement with evangelist Bill Gothard appears similar to a classic guru-disciple or mentor-pupil relationship and has included speaking multiple times at Gothard's conferences, traveling with Gothard to Korea in 1996, using Bill Gothard's material to homeschool his six children, making an instructional video for Gothard's Institute For Basic Life Principles, and, when Webster became speaker of the Florida legislature in 1997, hiring four of Gothard's IBLP employees as high-level Florida State House staffers.