Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted, with an endorsement, a video of pastors associated with his church saying that women shouldn’t vote, sodomy should be illegal again across the nation, and that each town, each state, the nation, and the world ought to be Christian.
“All of Christ for All of Life,” Hegseth wrote on X.
The CNN interview features Doug Wilson, a self-described “Christian Nationalist” and senior pastor of Christ Church in Idaho, and other leaders describing their view of what America should look like. The church just opened a location in DC, which held its inaugural service in a building owned by the Conservative Partnership Institute, a think tank co-led by President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to CNN.
Christianity Today reports that, during a service several weeks ago, “Children in the pews whispered excitedly when Hegseth entered, and the defense secretary was mobbed by supporters as he left the church.” The defense secretary, who is a parishioner, has previously praised Wilson, saying that the current generation is “standing on the shoulders” of leaders like him.
In the CNN interview, reporter Pamala Brown asked Wilson, “Is planting a church in DC part of your plan to turn this into a Christian nation?” “Yes,” he replied, noting earlier in the interview, “I’d like to see the town be a Christian town. I’d like to see the state be a Christian state. I’d like to see the nation be a Christian nation. I’d like to see the world be a Christian world.”
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Brown asked Wilson a series of questions about his views on women in the church and public life. Wilson calls himself “patriarchal,” celebrated the Dobbs decision as a gift from God and Trump, has said voting should come from households, which men should typically run, and that women shouldn’t hold any positions of power in the church that “involve exercising authority over men.” Wilson, a veteran himself, believes that women shouldn’t be in military combat. Secretary Hegseth has also said he’s against women in combat roles.
“Women,” Wilson began in the CNN interview, “are the kind of people that people come out of.” “So,” Brown asked back, “you just think they’re meant to have babies?”
“It doesn’t take any talent to simply reproduce biologically,” Wilson replied. “The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four of five eternal souls.” Brown then says that she is a working journalist and a mother of three. “Good for you,” he said. “Is that an issue for you?” she asked. “No, it’s not automatically an issue,” he replied.