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Stephen Green The ex-wife of viciously anti-gay UK Christian extremist Stephen Green says he beat her until she bled and does not believe marital rape exists. Caroline Green was married to the Christian Voice leader for 26 years. She says she has come forward now because “the people who support him financially and morally should know what he is really like”. Green was recently interviewed by the BBC over his views on Elton John becoming a father and has approved of the death penalty for gays and lesbians. He was asked by the BBC for his views on the singer's parenting skills but his ex-wife claims that he had attacked his own children with belts and broomsticks and punished them harshly for minor transgressions. Mrs Green told the Mail on Sunday that he had beaten her and her children, “brainwashed” them and forced them to live in a dilapidated caravan in remote Wales to protect them from the “evil” of urban life. She says in the incident which prompted her to leave him, he made a list of her failings as a wife and then beat her until she bled with a piece of wood. “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.” She also said that he had beaten their eldest and middle sons with belts and broomsticks. “It was almost like living in a cult. We were all subjugated to his will and cowed by him. Over the years he belittled us and made us feel worthless. “Whenever I watch him on TV spouting verses from the Bible, or see him quoted in a newspaper, it turns my stomach. 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.” Green has since married a Kenyan woman 25 years his junior and declined to comment to the Mail on Sunday. He leads Christian Voice, which is a small protest group of around 300 members. Pink News says the group rails against violence, abortion, immorality and drugs, although it reserves a special venom for homosexuality.
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First published: Wednesday, 2nd February 2011 - 12:08pm