Self-proclaimed voice of Christian Britain is a wife beater, says his former partner

Christian Voice is a pressure group based in the UK. Its stated objective is "to uphold Christianity as the Faith of the United Kingdom, to be a voice for Biblical values in law and public policy, and to defend and support traditional family life."

The leader of Christian Voice is Stephen Green, a former Chairman of the Conservative Family Campaign. He routinely inveighs against the abolition of the death penalty, no-fault divorce, Islam, abortion and, his particular obsession, homosexuality; Green backed Ugandan attempts to introduce the death penalty for homosexuality.

Now, according to The Daily Mail, his ex-wife has claimed that Green is a wife-beater.

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.

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.

‘Stephen listed my misdemeanours: I was disrespectful and disobedient; I wasn’t loving or submissive enough and I was undermining him. He also said I wasn’t giving him his ­conjugal rights.

‘He even framed our marriage vows — he always put particular emphasis on my promise to obey him — and hung them over our bed. 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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