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“In my ideal society, we would vote as households,” Doug Wilson, an extreme right-wing pastor said in a video clip posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. “And I would ordinarily be the one that would cast the vote, but I would cast the vote having discussed it with my household.”
It was part of last Thursday’s CNN segment on Wilson, who believes in Christian reconstruction, an extreme version of Christianity that does not support the right of women to vote. But if that wasn’t disturbing enough on its own, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video last week, simply commenting “All of Christ for All of Life.” When Slate magazine reached out to the Pentagon earlier this week seeking clarification on whether or not Hegseth believed women should vote, an agency spokesperson responded with a statement that notably did not say Hegseth believed in women’s right to vote.
When asked for comment, the Pentagon pointed HuffPost to a transcript of a Thursday press briefing in which a spokesperson responds to a reporter by saying, “On your second question about the 19th Amendment, of course the secretary thinks that women should have the right to vote,” said Kingsley Wilson, the Department of Defense press secretary. “That’s a stupid question.”
