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Wilson was joined by Toby Sumpter, a pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, where Wilson leads the congregation, and Pastor Jared Longshore, dean at New Saint Andrews College, a school run by Christ Church. They laid out their vision for America\u2019s future at a town hall on the University of Idaho campus, Religion News Service<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n Hegseth is a member of Wilson\u2019s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a Calvinist denomination founded by the Christian nationalist. The former Fox News host has championed Wilson\u2019s writings and teachings, even imposing those views on servicemembers shortly after taking over the Defense Department, when he invited Wilson to proselytize at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n Never Miss a Beat Wilson is a staunch proponent of biblical patriarchy, in which wives submit to their husbands, parents inflict painful discipline on children, and boys are taught the \u201ctheology of fist fighting.\u201d He is not opposed to the death penalty for homosexuality<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wilson wants \u201cto take over the world for Christ,\u201d Julie Ingersoll, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida, told The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHegseth mentor Doug Wilson’s vision for a Christian nation means married women can’t vote *** During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women\u201d 4\/10\/26 \u2026 1\/<\/p>\n \u2014 Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-04-10T22:09:25.498Z<\/a><\/p>\n At the poorly attended Idaho event, Wilson talked about how his Moscow church is a laboratory for his vision to bring The Handmaid\u2019s Tale to life, and where there\u2019s no such thing as Obergefell v. Hodges. He and his congregants are building a \u201cworking prototype,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been done before, the three men agreed, pointing out that some of the original 13 colonies established state churches at their founding. The men overlooked the fact that the U.S. Constitution prevents governments from creating an official church or favoring one religion over another.<\/p>\n Privacy, including a woman\u2019s right to an abortion and sexual freedoms, would disappear as a legal concept in Wilson\u2019s new world order. What Biblical law defines as sinful behavior, the pastors said, would be subject to public punishment.<\/p>\n Along with marriage equality, the 19th\u00a0Amendment granting women the right to vote would be overturned. Adultery would carry legal penalties.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re living in the nuclear fallout of the destruction of the American family,\u201d Wilson\u2019s colleague Toby Sumpter said.<\/p>\n Wilson\u2019s influence can be seen in his mentee\u2019s overtly religious pronouncements as Hegseth prosecutes the war in Iran, in which he has repeatedly invoked \u201cGod\u2019s almighty providence\u201d\u00a0and prayed for victory \u201cin the name of Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cShot down on a Friday, Good Friday, hidden in a cave, a crevice, all of Saturday and rescued on Sunday,\u201d Hegseth said of the pilot rescued by Special Operations Forces over Easter weekend. \u201cFlown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday, a pilot reborn.\u201d<\/p>\n It was another prayer on March 25 at the Pentagon that would cause Pope Leo to break his silence on the administration\u2019s invocation of Christ in their unprovoked war on Iran: Hegseth prayed for \u201coverwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n On Palm Sunday, Leo reminded his flock that God ignores the prayers of those whose \u201chands are full of blood\u201d from making war.<\/p>\n
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