I know anecdotes are not data, but I can find a LOT more Republican leaders convicted of being pedophiles, including a former Speaker, than I can of Democrats. If feels like something is going on there, maybe related to their opposition to raising the minimum age for marriage.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reposted and praised a video interview of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church doesn't believe women shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Doug Wilson, senior pastor of Christ Church in Idaho, said during the interview with CNN that, "Women are the kind of people that people come out of."

"The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four or five eternal souls," he continued.

In the CNN interview, Wilson also defended previous comments where he had said there was mutual affection between slaves and their masters. He also said that sodomy should be recriminalized. The Supreme Court invalidated sodomy laws in 2003.

In his repost of the interview on the platform X, Hegseth added, "All of Christ for All of Life."

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told NPR in an emailed statement on Saturday that Hegseth is a "proud member of a church affiliated with the Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches," which was founded by Wilson.

"The Secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson's writings and teachings," Parnell also wrote.

In the CNN video, a congregant in Wilson's church explained that her husband "is the head of our household and I do submit to him." A fellow pastor also said that families should vote as a household, with the husband and father casting the vote.

Andrew Whitehead, a sociology professor at Indiana University Indianapolis and an expert on Christian nationalism, told NPR the goal for Wilson and his followers is to spread these ideas across the country – and ultimately make them enforceable.

 "It's not just they have these personal Christian beliefs about the role of women in the family. It's that they want to enforce those for everybody," Whitehead said.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/09/nx-s1-549...gseth-vote

(August 9, 2025 at 11:50 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reposted and praised a video interview of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church doesn't believe women shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Doug Wilson, senior pastor of Christ Church in Idaho, said during the interview with CNN that, "Women are the kind of people that people come out of."

"The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four or five eternal souls," he continued.

In the CNN interview, Wilson also defended previous comments where he had said there was mutual affection between slaves and their masters. He also said that sodomy should be recriminalized. The Supreme Court invalidated sodomy laws in 2003.

In his repost of the interview on the platform X, Hegseth added, "All of Christ for All of Life."

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told NPR in an emailed statement on Saturday that Hegseth is a "proud member of a church affiliated with the Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches," which was founded by Wilson.

"The Secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson's writings and teachings," Parnell also wrote.

In the CNN video, a congregant in Wilson's church explained that her husband "is the head of our household and I do submit to him." A fellow pastor also said that families should vote as a household, with the husband and father casting the vote.

Andrew Whitehead, a sociology professor at Indiana University Indianapolis and an expert on Christian nationalism, told NPR the goal for Wilson and his followers is to spread these ideas across the country – and ultimately make them enforceable.

 "It's not just they have these personal Christian beliefs about the role of women in the family. It's that they want to enforce those for everybody," Whitehead said.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/09/nx-s1-549...gseth-vote

Hegseth needs to be fired, not only for his archaic views exemplified here, but for his simple incompetence. The bombing texts revealing classified material to uncleared readers, the possible cancellation of a modern ISR platform for the P-2(!), the great reduction in F-35 builds ... all stupid money.

I assume he's still in office because the administration likes his shitty decisions. The fact that he'd prefer to reduce the recruiting base even as the military is struggling to find recruits only underlines his inability to reconcile his beliefs with reality. He belongs in the recycle bin. But he serves the purposes of this administration, so he stays.

He's bad for the country.

(August 10, 2025 at 12:58 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(August 9, 2025 at 11:50 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reposted and praised a video interview of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church doesn't believe women shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Doug Wilson, senior pastor of Christ Church in Idaho, said during the interview with CNN that, "Women are the kind of people that people come out of."

"The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four or five eternal souls," he continued.

In the CNN interview, Wilson also defended previous comments where he had said there was mutual affection between slaves and their masters. He also said that sodomy should be recriminalized. The Supreme Court invalidated sodomy laws in 2003.

In his repost of the interview on the platform X, Hegseth added, "All of Christ for All of Life."

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told NPR in an emailed statement on Saturday that Hegseth is a "proud member of a church affiliated with the Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches," which was founded by Wilson.

"The Secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson's writings and teachings," Parnell also wrote.

In the CNN video, a congregant in Wilson's church explained that her husband "is the head of our household and I do submit to him." A fellow pastor also said that families should vote as a household, with the husband and father casting the vote.

Andrew Whitehead, a sociology professor at Indiana University Indianapolis and an expert on Christian nationalism, told NPR the goal for Wilson and his followers is to spread these ideas across the country – and ultimately make them enforceable.

 "It's not just they have these personal Christian beliefs about the role of women in the family. It's that they want to enforce those for everybody," Whitehead said.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/09/nx-s1-549...gseth-vote

Hegseth needs to be fired, not only for his archaic views exemplified here, but for his simple incompetence. The bombing texts revealing classified material to uncleared readers, the possible cancellation of a modern ISR platform for the P-2(!), the great reduction in F-35 builds ... all stupid money.

I assume he's still in office because the administration likes his shitty decisions. The fact that he'd prefer to reduce the recruiting base even as the military is struggling to find recruits only underlines his inability to reconcile his beliefs with reality. He belongs in the recycle bin. But he serves the purposes of this administration, so he stays.

He's bad for the country.

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He's still in office because his boss equates celebrity with competence. 

And, yeah, the 'shitty decisions' thing, too.

Boru

You know what this reminds me of? I’m a big fan of the cinema or Weimar Germany (IMHO, it’s where the art form really grew up). Unfortunately, if you know anything about Weimar Germany, you know what happened afterward. Some of the people involved in making those films (Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Robert Siodmak, and Marlene Dietrich just to name a few) had the good sense to get the Hell out of Germany while the getting was good. Some, however, did not. Some laid low politically, some died in the camps, but some (see Emil Jannings and Leni Riefenstahl for the most galling examples) actually sucked up to Der Führer. 

But one thing I haven’t found in my studies: an actor from one of these films who pivoted from Weimar-era actor to full-blown member of the SS or the Gestapo. The closest example I can think of is Leni Riefenstahl, and even then, while it’s an incontrovertible fact that A: her films helped prop up the legitimacy of the Nazi regime, and B: contrary to her claims from 1946 on, she definitely knew about the horrific shit they were doing even early on; it seems like when it comes to hands-on participation in actual atrocities, the closest we have is an incident in September 1939 in Konskie, Poland that seems to have played out like Tuco killing No-Doze except on a larger level (to her credit, if photos are any indication, she appears to have been suitably horrified by the incident.)

Now, we have Dean Cain doing something that even the most craven opportunists of Weimar Cinema don’t seem to have done: deciding to do Hitler’s dirty work themselves.

(August 10, 2025 at 4:20 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(August 10, 2025 at 12:58 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Hegseth needs to be fired, not only for his archaic views exemplified here, but for his simple incompetence. The bombing texts revealing classified material to uncleared readers, the possible cancellation of a modern ISR platform for the P-2(!), the great reduction in F-35 builds ... all stupid money.

I assume he's still in office because the administration likes his shitty decisions. The fact that he'd prefer to reduce the recruiting base even as the military is struggling to find recruits only underlines his inability to reconcile his beliefs with reality. He belongs in the recycle bin. But he serves the purposes of this administration, so he stays.

He's bad for the country.

(Bold mine)

He's still in office because his boss equates celebrity with competence. 

And, yeah, the 'shitty decisions' thing, too.

Boru

Chosen for celebrity, retained for apparent skills in the cocksucking department.

(August 11, 2025 at 6:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(August 10, 2025 at 4:20 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (Bold mine)

He's still in office because his boss equates celebrity with competence. 

And, yeah, the 'shitty decisions' thing, too.

Boru

Chosen for celebrity, retained for apparent skills in the cocksucking department.

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Boru