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Pastor challenging Lindsey Graham for the GOP nomination in South Carolina says that divorce is caused by women loving their children too much. Wait, what?

Courtesy of Politico:

Det Bowers, a pastor challenging Lindsey Graham in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary, once blamed women for causing most divorces — even when husbands are unfaithful to their wives.

During a sermon on the Book of Peter delivered at the Christ Church of the Carolinas, Bowers said it was an “abominable idolatry” when wives love their children more than their husbands, arguing that’s what causes divorces most of the time. He added that in the “vast preponderance” of situations where men are adulterous, women are to blame because they have showered too much emotion on their children instead of their husbands.

“And yet, I find that in about 95 percent of broken marriages, though the husband’s the one that ran out on his wife, the wife loves her children more than she does her husband,” Bowers said in an audio recording obtained by POLITICO. “That is an abominable idolatry.”

Bowers added, his voice rising: “Do you hear me ladies? It is an abominable idolatry to love your children more than you love your husband, and it will ruin your marriage. And yet you blame it on him because he ran off with some other woman! He did run off with some other woman, and you packed his bags. All of his emotional bags, you packed for him. Is that true in every case? No, but it’s true in the vast preponderance of them.

“You just ran him off. You paid more attention to your children than you did to him,” he said. “‘Oh, he doesn’t need me?’ He needs you more than they do. He chose you, they didn’t. An abominable idolatry.”

So to be clear this guy think that even if a man cheats on his spouse, that it is STILL the woman's fault if the man feels that she loves their kids more than she loves him.

And remember, as a pastor this guy undoubtedly provided marriage counseling to members of his congregation.

You know I am just a Philistine and do not really understand religious people all that much, but in my mind there is no way to love your children too much.

And in my experience, of which I have more than my share, what makes marriages break up is a lack of love within the union, not too much love.

I expect mothers to love their children with every fiber of their being, and I don't think I would respect them if they did not. If a man cannot handle that it is on him, not her problem.

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