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"I believe submission is, like, the highest form of beauty for a woman," Reitsma said in a video defending the fundamentalist teaching of male headship over women.

This is a party captured by the Christian right, after all, which is organized largely around a belief in male "headship" over women.

She said before becoming head teacher at Kitchener she was turned down for a few headship roles.

“Marriage can be a partnership of equals. You would’ve thought a bomb went off. ... Male headship is God’s will, they repeated. Women who were intelligent.”

“Fundamentally, it comes down to the headship of Christ over his church and not wanting to surrender that to Caesar,” Mr. Coates said.