UK Anti-Gay Christianist A Wife Beater?

It truly seems sometimes that no one has more of a monopoly on hypocrisy than the self-congratulatory "family values" Christianists. Okay, I concede that the Catholic Church hierarchy is in a close neck and neck race for this distinction, but at least none of the hierarchy to my knowledge beat women. The latest shrill anti-gay Christianist who has been exposed as a hypocrite is Stephen Green (pictured at left), the founder and director of Christian Voice. It seems that Greene, who would have the larger public believe that gays are a threat to civilization itself has the habit of beating his wife and children. Apparently, to Greene the sanctity of marriage only is an issue when same sex couples want the privilege. His wife and repeated abuse victim, Carolyn, has stated that her husband wrote a virulently anti-gay book, The ­Sexual Dead End, which she says marked "the beginning of the end" and that two years later, he abandoned the Conservative Family Campaign, which he regarded as too moderate, and set up the more radically far right Christian Voice. The Daily Mail has details on Greene's unmasking. Here are some highlights:
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Caroline Green was often punished by her husband Stephen for failing to be a dutiful, compliant wife, but his final act of violence against her — the one that prompted her long-overdue decision to divorce him — was all the more chilling because it was coldly premeditated.
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Stephen Green wrote a list of his wife’s ­failings then described the weapon he would make to beat her with. ‘He told me he’d make a piece of wood into a sort of witch’s broom and hit me with it, which he did,’ she recalls, her voice tentative and quiet. ‘He hit me until I bled. I was terrified. I can still remember the pain.
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He believed there was no such thing as marital rape and for years I’d been reluctant to have sex with him, but he said it was my duty and was angry if I refused him.
‘But the beating was the last straw. It ­convinced me I had to divorce him.’
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Whenever I watch him on TV spouting verses from the Bible, or see him quoted in a news­paper, it turns my stomach,’ she says. ‘I’ve decided to tell the truth about him now because the people who support him financially and morally should know what he is really like.’

The fact that Caroline remained married for 26 years is surprising. But, she explains, she was intimidated and terrified to leave him. She was also aware — because she had no money of her own — that she depended on the £800 a month that he gave her to bring up their children. ‘It was almost like living in a cult,’ she says.
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I suggest that reader read the entire story. The image of Greene that emerges is that of a mentally unstable psychopath who has latched onto religion as a way to try to justify himself - something that, in my view, aptly describes far too many of the anti-gay professional Christian set.