I'm not a white nationalist; I'm not a fascist; I'm not a racist; I'm not a misogynist.
- Doug Wilson, senior pastor of Christ Church in Idaho
None of what follows should be at all surprising to those who regularly follow the devolution of the United States into an autocratic/theocratic state. Also not surprising is that the Pastor Doug is a favourite of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has gone on record as saying that women have no place in military combat roles. As it turns out, he sees little place for women in any role outside of housewife and baby-maker, as evidenced by his full-throated endorsement of Wilson.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reposted and praised a video interview of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church doesn't believe women should 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.
Should you have the inclination and the stomach, you can watch the CNN interview here.
In response to this, Hillary Clinton responded:
You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)? Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next.
I've always held the view that everyone is entitled to his or her perspectives and opinions, as long as they don't infringe upon others. Clearly, however, the Christian nationalist movement has its forceful designs on all of America; indeed, they ape the Taliban in their fervour to suppress women, and they see it as their holy mission to convert the nation to that retrograde position.
One cannot help but remember another holy mission of an earlier time. It was called the Crusades.
