The Church orders Wives to Submit to their Husbands

[Thorne]

Aren't you confusing submission with subjection?

Mark Oden was asking wives to choose to submit to their husbands, whom they presumably love.

I can't find a copy of the leaflet which was apparently handed out, but here:

From the article:
Vicar Angus MacLeay issued a leaflet to churchgoers, saying: “Wives are to submit to their husbands in everything in recognition of the fact that husbands are head of the family as Christ is head of the church. This is the way God has ordered their relationships with each other and Christian marriage cannot function well without it.”

That doesn't sound to me like someone asking or suggesting anything. That sounds like him telling them to submit, because that's what God wants.

And from some of the comments I've read, here and elsewhere, he's done a fairly good job of alienating quite a few of his flock. It sounds to me like these Christian women don't want to submit.