Pentagon Pete Deploys Misogynist Pastor for Worship With Troops
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has invited a controversial pastor with misogynistic views to speak at the Pentagon’s monthly worship service.
Pastor Doug Wilson has pushed for a return to patriarchal values, including scrapping women of the right to vote. He told CNN in 2025 that females should focus on being mothers, noting “it doesn’t take any talent to simply reproduce biologically.”
In a Politico profile last May, Wilson said that American society, and government, should be governed by a conservative take on Biblical law and he wanted to see America transform into a Christian republic.
The deeply religious Hegseth is a member of a church affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), and the pastor is now opening a branch in Washington, D.C.
Wilson built his Evangelical church in Moscow, Idaho and now has a 150-strong network, as well as running a Christian publishing company, a Christian school and college. He spoke at the Pentagon on Tuesday, with the Pentagon’s X account sharing photos of Hegseth with Wilson.
Hegseth, who has been married three times, has made no secret of his support for Wilson and his extreme views. Last August, he shared a CNN profile on Wilson where he advocated for the return of laws against homosexuality and claimed that women’s priorities should be starting families and raising children.
“Women are the kind of people that people come out of,” Wilson said. “It doesn’t take any talent to simply reproduce biologically.”
In the clip, which Hegseth captioned “All of Christ for All of Life,” one of Wilson’s female congregation members admits she “submits” to her husband, while Executive Pastor Jared Longshore said he would support the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, to be repealed.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has invited a controversial pastor with misogynistic views to speak at the Pentagon’s monthly worship service.
Pastor Doug Wilson has pushed for a return to patriarchal values, including scrapping women of the right to vote. He told CNN in 2025 that females should focus on being mothers, noting “it doesn’t take any talent to simply reproduce biologically.”
In a Politico profile last May, Wilson said that American society, and government, should be governed by a conservative take on Biblical law and he wanted to see America transform into a Christian republic.
The deeply religious Hegseth is a member of a church affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), and the pastor is now opening a branch in Washington, D.C.
Wilson built his Evangelical church in Moscow, Idaho and now has a 150-strong network, as well as running a Christian publishing company, a Christian school and college. He spoke at the Pentagon on Tuesday, with the Pentagon’s X account sharing photos of Hegseth with Wilson.
Hegseth, who has been married three times, has made no secret of his support for Wilson and his extreme views. Last August, he shared a CNN profile on Wilson where he advocated for the return of laws against homosexuality and claimed that women’s priorities should be starting families and raising children.
“Women are the kind of people that people come out of,” Wilson said. “It doesn’t take any talent to simply reproduce biologically.”
In the clip, which Hegseth captioned “All of Christ for All of Life,” one of Wilson’s female congregation members admits she “submits” to her husband, while Executive Pastor Jared Longshore said he would support the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, to be repealed.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-p...th-troops/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
