(CNN) -- The pronouncement Wednesday from the Southern Baptist Convention -- that a wife should submit herself to her husband -- may prompt debates in prominent households.

President Clinton is a Southern Baptist, although first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is not. Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper attend a Southern Baptist church when they are home in Carthage, Tennessee.

But in one more ordinary home, the issue of the husband-wife relationship was settled long ago.

CNN's Martin Savidge profiles one Southern Baptist family 2 min., 58 sec. VXtreme video

Jeff and Deanna Mize decided 10 years ago, before they married and had five children, that they would follow the model that is now being advocated in the article added to the Southern Baptist statement of beliefs.

"My role is to submit, whether the choice is right or wrong," Deanna Mize said. "I'm not held accountable for the choices that he's made."

Her husband said the couple is following the example set for them.

"We had it modeled in our own homes with our parents and grandparents, and it's just something we grew up believing in and accepted into our lives," he said.

However, not everyone agrees.

One former member of the church's executive committee calls the article "politically extreme and out-of-touch with the historic tradition of Baptist life and mainstream Christianity."

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