The United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has republished a video in which several pastors claim that women should no longer have the right to vote.
This extraordinary publication of the defense secretary Pete Hegseth on X, Thursday evening, illustrates his deep and personal link with a Christian nationalist pastor with extreme opinions on the role of religion and women.
In his message, Mr. Hegseth commented a almost seven -minute report released by CNN on Doug Wilson, co -founder of the Communion of Reformeld Evangelical Churches (CREC).
The report presented a pastor from Mr. Wilson’s church advocating the abolition of women’s right to vote in the Constitution, and another pastor saying that in his ideal world, people would vote as households. He also presented a faithful claiming that she submitted to her husband.
“Women are the kind of people where people come from,” said Pastor Doug Wilson in the video.
“All Christ for the whole life,” wrote Hegseth in his message accompanying the report.
Hegseth’s message received more than 12,000 mentions I like and 2,000 shares on X. Some users have approved the pastors in the video, while others have been alarmed that the defense secretary promotes nationalist Christian ideas.
Doug Pagitt, pastor and executive director of the progressive evangelical organization votes Common Good, said that the ideas expressed in the video were opinions “defended by a small fringe of Christians” and added that he was “very worrying” that Mr. Hegseth amplifies them.
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Pete Hegseth
Pentagon’s chief spokesperson Sean Parnell told the Associated Press on Friday that Mr. Hegseth is “a proud member of a church” affiliated with CREC and that he “greatly appreciates Mr. Wilson’s writings and teachings”.
In May, Mr. Hegseth invited his personal pastor, Brooks Potteiger, at the Pentagon to lead the first in a series of prayer services that Mr. Hegseth organized inside the government building during working hours. The employees of the Defense Department and the soldiers said they had received invitations to this event in their government emails.
“I would like the nation to be a Christian nation, and I would like the world to be a Christian world,” said Wilson in the report of CNN.
Not the first escape
As a defense secretary, Mr. Hegseth was at the heart of the “signalgate”. In March, high placed from the Trump administration, including Mr. Hegseth and Vice-President JD Vance, discussed the signal messaging application the details of an imminent strike in Yemen. Mike Waltz, then national security advisor, mistakenly invited the magazine publisher The Atlantic to join the private messaging group.
The Trump administration tried to minimize the case by arguing that no confidential information had been shared. A Pentagon survey is underway.
Hegseth has already argued that women should not take part in the army and he has repeatedly criticized “Woke ideology” within the US military before taking control of it.
A former member of the American National Guard, Pete Hegseth was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming host of the Fox News channel for 10 years.
His appointment to the post of defense secretary had narrowly passed a vote in the Senate. Elected officials had notably questioned him on an accusation of sexual assault dating back to 2017, a case that Hegseth settled by an out -of -courted agreement with the alleged victim. His history of alcohol consumption and his lack of high -ranking experience in the army had also been criticized.
With Philippe Morin-Aubut, The press
