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A Missouri pastor is reportedly seeking 'professional counseling' after he told women to lose weight and strive to be like Melania Trump for their husbands

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A Missouri pastor is seeking "professional counseling" after having delivered a sermon that advised women to lose weight and aspire to resemble former first lady Melania Trump.

Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark of Missouri's Malden First General Baptist Church is on leave and in counseling, the church told local CBS News affiliate KCTV. Clark made waves with a Sunday sermon in February where he said that women should strive to stay slim to keep men interested.

"Now look, I'm not saying every woman can be the epic, epic trophy wife of all time like Melania Trump. I'm not saying that at all," Clark said during his sermon, as a photo of Trump was shown behind him on screen.

"Most women can't be trophy wives, but you know, maybe you're a participation trophy," he continued. "I don't know, but all I can say is not everybody looks like that. Amen! Not everybody looks like that. But you don't need to look like a butch either."

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Baptist Missouri pastor's sermon against fat wives is not so shocking
BY MELINDA HENNEBERGER
MARCH 06, 2021 05:00 AM, UPDATED 8 HOURS 25 MINUTES AGO



A Baptist preacher in the Missouri Bootheel went on leave this week after his sermon advising that those women who "can't be the epic trophy wife of all time like Melania Trump" should still try to compete in wifely hotness. "Maybe you're a participation trophy."

There was nothing particularly Bible-based about Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark's many tips to the women in his flock at First General Baptist in Malden on how to keep their husbands from being "distracted."

As Jesus never said, but Clark did: "You don't need to look like a butch."

Somehow missing from the Sermon on the Mount: Blessed are those who don't wear sweatpants or slouch around Walmart in flip-flops, but do put on makeup and perfume. "You don't want to be ugly and stink," he told the women in his church.

Clark's wife used to be "quite robust" herself, he said, but praise God went to Weight Watchers after the birth of each of their children.

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https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda-henneberger/article249732428.html