Hegseth-Linked Pastor: Ban All Non-Christian Displays

From last month’s report by Right Wing Watch:

When Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as Secretary of Defense, concerns were raised immediately about Hegseth’s undisguised Christian nationalism. Hegseth, who has admitted that his multiple crusader tattoos got him “deemed an extremist” by his own National Guard unit, has deep ties to misogynistic Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson.

On Monday, Hegseth appeared on the “CrossPolitic” podcast, which is hosted by Toby Sumpter and Gabe Rench, both of whom are closely tied to Wilson and his church. During the discussion about Hegseth’s book “Battle For The American Mind,” Hegseth said that he is working to create a system of “classical Christian schools” to provide the recruits for an underground army that will eventually launch an “educational insurgency” to take over the nation.

Salon reports:

In one famous passage from his book on marriage, Wilson suggests that sexual violence is women’s fault for not being submissive enough. “[T]he sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party,” he writes. “A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.”

The alleged failure of women to submit, he continues, leads men to “dream of being rapists,” deprived of the “erotic necessity” found in women’s submission.

Nancy Wilson, Doug Wilson’s wife, backs this view, comparing a wife to a “garden” cultivated for the husband’s pleasure: “But of course a husband is never trespassing in his own garden.”

Today Right Wing Watch flagged the latest from Wilson in which he calls for banning all religious displays except for Christian ones. Watch the clip below.

Wilson first appeared here in 2015 when he was featured in an anti-LGBTQ “documentary” titled “Stonewall: The Free Speech Apocalypse.” The trailer is below.

Last year a deacon from Wilson’s church appeared here when he was sentenced to two years in prison on…yup…child porn charges.

Douglas Wilson says that in a Christian nation, all non-Christian displays of faith would be banned from the public square: “The public spaces would belong to Christ.” pic.twitter.com/OIxYiVXOia

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) December 10, 2024