Candace Cameron Bure is submissive to her husband in the Biblical sense

Candace Cameron and her brother Kirk are evangelical Christians. The Camerons – with the help of many Evangelicals – have been a part of a cottage industry in Hollywood and the publishing world by making “family-friendly” and “Evangelical-friendly” movies, TV shows, TV movies, books, etc. And before someone complains about my use of “cottage industry” – yes, I get that Evangelical/Christian entertainment is a growing and profitable industry representing hundreds of millions of dollars. I’m just saying that for the most part, it’s separate from the rest of Hollywood and the rest of the publishing world.

So, Candace has a new book out. It’s called Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose. From what I understand, this is not a “how to”. She’s not Gooping all over us, encouraging us to live exactly like her. Maybe I’m wrong about that, but this book just seems more like a Christianity-infused memoir. And it’s a memoir about how she came to be a “submissive wife” to her husband Val Bure. “Submissive” in the biblical sense. Seriously. Candace spoke about it to HuffPo:

Actress Candace Cameron Bure spoke on HuffPost Live with host Nancy Redd about her views on marriage, which she’s outlined in her new book, Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose. The former “Full House” star has been happily married to NHL player Val Bure for 17 years, and they have three children.

She writes in her book, “I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.”

Bure elaborated on HuffPost Live, “The definition I’m using with the word ‘submissive’ is the biblical definition of that. So, it is meekness, it is not weakness. It is strength under control, it is bridled strength… I love that my man is a leader. I want him to lead and those major decisions to fall on him… it doesn’t mean I don’t voice my opinion, that I don’t have an opinion – I absolutely do.”

Cameron has defended her view of marriage in the past. On Christian Women Online she quoted the biblical passage, “First Peter 3:1 says, ‘In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives.'”

“It is very difficult to have two heads of authority,” she told HuffPost Live. “It doesn’t work in military, it doesn’t work — I mean, you have one president, you know what I’m saying?”

[From HuffPo and The Daily Mail]

At the end of the day… it’s her body, her choice, her marriage. If being “submissive” to her husband and letting him make all of the “decisions” in their marriage is what works for her, than God bless. Do I think this is a dangerous idea to promote? Absolutely. But there are millions of women and men who feel that this is how marriage should be, with the man as the decider and the lady as the…? I don’t even know. The ladies raise the children, but if the husband is the ultimate decider, how do you even get through the day without calling your man a million times to get him to sign off on a million different things? It just doesn’t make sense from a time-management perspective.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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