Pete Hegseth’s Pastor Returns to Say Women Voting Is a ‘Bad Idea’
After Hegseth boosted Doug Wilson’s CNN interview slamming women voting and gay sex, the Christian nationalist told the Associated Press he's "grateful" to Hegseth and yes, he's against the 19th Amendment.
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There are not enough adjectives in all the languages of the universe to describe how deeply I loathe Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The former weekend Fox News anchor—who wasn’t even good enough to get promoted to primetime anchor—has used his position as head of the U.S. Defense Department to remove women and people of color from leadership positions, erase people of color from U.S. military history, support the Confederacy, and get the Navy to rename a ship named after gay rights leader Harvey Milk and review ships named after other civil rights icons like Harriet Tubman, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Thurgood Marshall, and Cesar Chavez. Because the real threat to our nation’s security is a boat named after a woman who helped free slaves in the 1800s, and not the convicted sexual predator in charge who pardoned the January 6 insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol and attacked police officers.
Which is all to say, it’s a fucking fantastic time to be an American—as long as you’re an anti-woman, anti-gay, bigoted, Christian nationalist, like Doug Wilson, the pastor who co-founded the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, of which Hegseth is a member. Wilson wants to ban gay sex and doesn’t think women should vote—ideas that Hegseth clearly has no problem with. Last week, Wilson was interviewed by CNN, and Hegseth caused a firestorm when he reposted the interview on Twitter with the church’s motto, “All of Christ for All of Life.”
“I was very grateful to him for doing that,” Wilson told the Associated Press on Monday, after Hegseth’s tweet made headlines. “He was, in effect, reposting it and saying, ‘Amen’ at some level.” The CREC has 130 churches across the U.S. and recently opened its first Washington, D.C. spot, Christ Church DC. Hegseth attended its first Sunday Service.
“My wife votes, my daughters vote, if people rush to conclusions from what they heard on the CNN piece, that’s a sad thing,” Wilson continued. “At the same time, I think the 19th Amendment was a bad idea.” I’m sorry…what conclusion were we not supposed to rush to?