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Here's an interesting article on the relationship between patriarchal views of women and slavery http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/patrislav.htm

Traditional Christian ownership is explicit with regard to slaves but implicit with regard to women. Wilson's opposition to feminism is more radical than most people would think. Extended to society as a whole, his doctrine of the "federal" husband would deny women the right to vote, not only in their churches, but also anywhere else.[9] Following the ancient view, the patriarch rules his household and owns everything in it. . . . [10]

Sometimes this power goes to the patriarchs' heads and they become spiritual Titans. I define spiritual Titanism as an extreme form of humanism in which humans take on divine attributes and prerogatives.[11]

This article has some relevant quotes from VF people: http://www.alternet.org/reproductive...s/?page=entire

Vision Forum’s annual Father-Daughter Retreat, an event that’s described on Vision Forum’s website in terms that are, in a word, discomfiting. (“He leads her, woos her, and wins her with a tenderness and affection unique to the bonds of father and daughter.”)

The Botkin sisters write in So Much More that loving your parents means agreeing with all their opinions. “When your parents have your heart you will truly ‘delight in their ways,’” write the sisters in one blog post. “You will love what they love, hate what they hate, and desire their approval and company and even ‘think thoughts after them.’”