[Alouette]

Well, I am a rabbi's wife, and I have never had the urge to shoot my husband multiple times.

Maybe I have had the urge once or twice but I never actually DID.

[manwiththehands]

Just another symptom of the "let's kill our wounded" mentality that's fairly common in many of our "Christian" churches.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Consider the source. Another stupid article by the AP, trying to blow out of proportion a rare incident.

[the invisib1e hand]

Suddenly, celibacy for the clergy doesn't seem so unreasonable.

[OldFriend]

Some years ago our Rabbi's wife filed for divorce. Seems he was available to everyone in the congregation but never there for his own wife and kids. That's the sad fact of the chosen way of life. Very difficult for the families.

Evidently divorce didn't occur to Mrs. Winkler. She ought not be given any extra consideration as to punishment. IMO!

[the-gooroo]

Boo FReakin' Hoo!

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I am sure a great many wives, and not a few husbands, struggle, but they do not murder their spouses in cold blood.

[hodaka]

My guess is that he was messing around, or it was her time of the month.

[hinckley buzzard]

"You're not really hired, and yet there is some expectation in most church settings that the pastor's wife comes along in a package deal," Hunter said.

I have seen this phenomenon illustrated very clearly in my old church. It is up to the pastor to establish unambiguous boundaries and expectations on the part of the congregation with respect to his wife. Typically, she is NOT part of a "package," and is entitled to her own private life and relationship with her husband.

[nickcarraway]

Typical problem resulting from Catholics not allowing priests to be married. Oops, wrong thread.

[Lancey Howard]

[Grim]

Experts: Preachers' Wives Often Struggle

"This family needed help," said Evans.

Brilliant! What would we do without "experts" to explain this to us?

[trubluolyguy]

My Pastors' wife is extremely busy with church business, two kids and 3 foster kids. I could never imagine her killing her husband or even swatting a fly for that matter.

[Conservababe]

Years ago, my mother and father in law belonged to a small baptist church. They loved their new pastor and his wife and family. The church voted to build them a new parsonage. And so they built it without even consulting the preacher as to his wants or needs. And after it was built, the good ladies of the church bought the furniture and decorated it to their own wishes and outdated style.

I attended the open house. I asked how the preacher and his family liked it and was told that it was the church's home, after all.

Yes, I learned that a congregation thinks that it owns a preacher, his family and his home....live, stock and barrel.

[Cacique]

Sounds like an argument for priestly celibacy.

[longtermmemmory]

Yet another AP article taking any opportunity to bash Christianity.

Now eeeeeevil "preachers" are abusive to women because they have a strained environment.

This relates back to hate crimes and the effort to criminalize chrisitainity.

-Those who have the conscience of faith are homophobic because they teach their children homosexuality is wrong.
-Those who have the conscience of faith are rapists because they don't support abortion on demand
-Those who have the conscience of faith are intollerant because they don't see a religion of peace when its leaders advocate homicide bombers
-Those who have the conscience of faith are hate mongers because they teach there is a right and a wrong.

and now

-Those who have the conscience of faith are wife abusers because their career path involves being a christian preacher.

(newsflash for the ignorant AP reporter, the orthodox faith has had married priests for a few centuries. They seem to have the same human problems AND successes as any other marriage.)

Seriously, it must be very embarassy for institutions of higher learnign to admit their graduates work for the AP.

-Those who have the conscience of faith are
-Those who have the conscience of faith are
Those who have the conscience of faith are

[wideminded]

My son attended a Lutheran college in the midwest. They had a president who is an ordained minister and who also had a Ph.D. in theology. He seemed like a wonderful choice and a great guy. The students loved him. I heard him speak a number of times and was very impressed.

Recently I heard that he was planning to get married. This seemed odd as I recalled him having been married for many years, with grown children. I was able to piece together the story that his first marriage had broken up over the subject of gay marriage.

Neither he nor his wife were gay, but apparently during all the recent news on this topic, he had publicly stated that he was not against gay marriage and as an ordained minister would perform them if asked. His wife was opposed to this position and was distressed by the fact that as he was a public figure, everyone would assume that she agreed with him. According to his ex-wife, somehow this argument was severe enough to break up a decades-long marriage.

Sometime time ago before I had heard about the marriage controversy, it was announced that this would be this man's last year as president of this college. This was surprising as it had seemed that this guy was a perfect fit and would be there for life. For a long time we had no idea if this was his choice or that of the trustees. Recently we learned that he had indeed been dismissed. As he was well liked and had raised a lot of money for the college, it seems that perhaps some of his controversial public positions were a factor in turning a majority of the trustees against him. Apparently he had also come out against the war in Iraq.

[DOGEY]

I would live to see the heading "Experts' wives often struggle".

[Poser]

Awwwwww... She's just an overworked nice lady.


NOT! She killed her husband!

[eleni121]

The dumbed down MSM has become fixated the Andrea Yates syndrome. Any number of causes can lead to bathtub drowings of kids, pushing cars with kids in them in lakes, and shooting in the back of husbands.

Medicalize everyone and just do away with punishment.