Hegseth Reposts Video On Social Media Featuring Pastors Saying Women Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — The person who oversees the nation’s navy reposted a video a few Christian nationalist church that included varied pastors saying ladies ought to not be allowed to vote.

The extraordinary repost on X from Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, made Thursday evening, illustrates his deep and private connection to a Christian nationalist pastor with excessive views on the role of religion and women.

Within the put up, Hegseth commented on an virtually seven-minute-long report by CNN inspecting Doug Wilson, cofounder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Church buildings, or CREC. The report featured a pastor from Wilson’s church advocating the repeal of ladies’s proper to vote from the Structure, and one other pastor saying that in his excellent world, folks would vote as households. It additionally featured a feminine congregant saying that she submits to her husband.

Hegseth’s put up obtained greater than 12,000 likes and a couple of,000 shares on X. Some customers agreed with the pastors within the video, whereas others expressed alarm on the protection secretary selling Christian nationalist concepts.

Doug Pagitt, pastor and govt director of the progressive evangelical group Vote Frequent Good, mentioned the concepts within the video are views that “small fringes of Christians maintain” and mentioned it was “very disturbing” that Hegseth would amplify them.

Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell advised The Related Press on Friday that Hegseth is “a proud member of a church” that’s affiliated with CREC and he “very a lot appreciates a lot of Mr. Wilson’s writings and teachings.”

In Might, Hegseth invited his private pastor, Brooks Potteiger, to the Pentagon to steer the primary of a number of Christian prayer providers that Hegseth has held inside the federal government constructing throughout working hours. Protection Division staff and repair members mentioned they obtained invites to the occasion of their authorities emails.

“I’d wish to see the nation be a Christian nation, and I’d wish to see the world be a Christian world,” Wilson mentioned within the CNN report.

AP journalists Mike Pesoli in Washington and Ali Swenson in New York contributed to this report.