The Pentagon clarified on Thursday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth thinks girls ought to have the right to vote, despite his sharing of NCS reporting which featured spiritual leaders he supports saying they’d again the repealing of the nineteenth Amendment.
“Of course, the secretary thinks that women should have the right to vote,” Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson informed reporters on Thursday.
Hegseth reposted video of a NCS section with Douglas Wilson, a self-described Christian nationalist pastor, who supports repealing the 19th Amendment, which supplies girls the right to vote. Wilson’s fellow pastors informed NCS’s Pamela Brown in addition they help the concept, saying votes ought to be made as households and that the lads of the family could be those really casting the vote.
“I would support that,” Jared Longshore, government pastor of Christ Church, informed NCS of repealing the nineteenth Amendment. “And I’d support it on the basis that the atomization that comes from our current system is not good for humans.”
Hegseth shared the video on social media with the message, “All of Christ for All of Life.”
The Christian nationalist pastor with ties to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
“The secretary is a proud member of a church that is affiliated with the congregation of reformed evangelical churches, which was founded by Pastor Doug Wilson,” Kingsley Wilson informed reporters on Thursday. “The secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson’s writings and teachings.”
Hegseth — a member of a church in Tennessee which is a part of Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches — is essentially the most high-profile of Wilson’s followers within the Trump administration. Among the assertions within the governing documents for the CREC is that’s “neither lawful nor honorable for women to be mustered for combat service,” and that’s “the duty of men—not women—to protect their homelands and nations.”
While Hegseth has made multiple comments up to now saying girls mustn’t serve in fight roles within the navy, he has since backtracked on these claims, saying he respects all girls who serve and is primarily involved with requirements.
Hegseth has additionally begun holding Christian prayer services on the Pentagon, the primary of which featured his pastor from Tennessee from the Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, Brooks Potteiger.
In his opening prayer on the service, Potteiger thanked God for President Donald Trump and different leaders who’ve been “sovereignly appointed,” and “the way that you have used him to bring stability and moral clarity to our lands.”
Pastor Douglas Wilson informed NCS it was “very encouraging” to see Hegseth personal “what he believes,” together with purging range, fairness and inclusion packages and so-called “woke” insurance policies from the Defense Department.
“It’s not organizationally tied to us, but it’s the kind of thing we love to see,” he informed NCS of Hegseth’s prayer companies.
Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon press secretary, declined to say on Thursday what different particular concepts within the video — which included Douglas Wilson’s want to make the United States “a Christian nation,” his help for making homosexual intercourse against the law, and his doubling down on claims that there was “genuine affection” between slaves and their house owners — Hegseth did or didn’t help.
“He (Hegseth) appreciates many of (Wilson’s) writings and teachings. I’m not going to litigate every single aspect of what he may or may not believe in a certain video,” Wilson informed reporters.