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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