The idea that women should lose the right to vote is more than a coarse punchline or a dystopian point of view, but that Pete Hegseth, member of the president’s office, seems to agree. It is a moment that all women must take seriously, say the defenders, no matter how extreme or eccentric seems to be.
Hegseth, one of the most inducing members of Trump’s dramatic cabinet, made (still) waves for his support for a certain number of radical – and frankly disgusting pastors – an extreme right pastor that women should play in American society.
At the end of last week, Anderson Cooper 360 broadcast an interview that Pamela Brown of CNN did with Doug Wilson, the chief of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. As Brown explains, Wilson has been teaching his extremist opinions for years for years, but recently pierced with some of the most powerful people in the country, including Hegseth, who, according to her, frequented a church recently opened by Wilson in Washington, DC.
The litany of Wilson’s obsolete positions is large, but for beginners, CNN reported that he said that he thought that abortion and homosexuality should be illegal, that women should “submit” to their husbands and be unable to vote and that America should be judged as a Christian theocracy.
When he was asked to defend his point of view on the vote specifically by Brown, Wilson described women as “the kind of people from which people go out”, affirming that you should not “talent to reproduce simply biologically”. Brown asked if this bizarre and confusing description of half of the population should be considered as Wilson thinks that having children is the only goal for women in the world, but it has not really developed. Okay, then!
Wilson and his colleagues pastors, Jared Longshore and Toby Sumter, told Brown that they defended married men voting on behalf of their households.
“In my ideal society, we would vote as households and I would normally be the one who would vote, but I would vote by chatting with my house,” said Sumter. If the woman does not agree with the husband’s vote, he said, then they can have a “discussion” on this conflict, he added when he is in a hurry by Brown.
These opinions are apparently ideas that HegSeth supports. After the arm of the edition of the church, Canon Press published a video of the interview, the secretary retweeted it on X, saying “all Christ for the whole life”, the mission statement of Christ Church. And the Ministry of Defense, when asked by CNN, said that Hegseth “is a proud member of the network of churches founded by Pastor Wilson” and “appreciates many many writings and teachings of Mr. Wilson”.
And Wilson, according to a video published by TENNESSE HOLLERAlso takes Hegseth’s retweet as a demonstration of agreement, saying that the secretary “did not simply republished it, he republished it and said Amen.”
