Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reposted and praised a video interview of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church doesn’t believe women should be allowed to vote.
Doug Wilson, senior pastor of Christ Church in Idaho, said during the interview with CNN that, “Women are the kind of people that people come out of.”
“The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four or five eternal souls,” he continued.
In the CNN interview, Wilson also defended previous comments where he had said there was mutual affection between slaves and their masters. He also said that sodomy should be recriminalized. The Supreme Court invalidated sodomy laws in 2003.
It’s been decades. I don’t have all the answers for what to do right now but they had so many opportunities to steer away from this. It’s the Bob’s Burger Tina car crash situation and it would be embarrassing if those people could actually pay attention to what’s going on.
They plugged their ears and ignored all the signs and now they have to figure out how to get out of the hole they dug.
Regarding the holw: Europe is where the us was 10 years ago. Roughly. What are we and you (wherever you live) doing or supposed to be doing to counteract reactionary plays, populists and sometimes outright fascist that are moving back into the middle of most societies of Europe’s countries?
I’m in Canada. We’re not doing great but we at least didn’t let the Conservatives win last time when everything pointed to that happening. We barely did it, and we still only got centrists out of the deal, and “we” still includes all the fools who voted Conservative, but PP didn’t even win his own riding, let alone the country. A big part of the problem is that one of the US’s major exports is its conservative, capitalist ideology and it spreads like a cancer from there. Many of out right-wing politicians are just copying the southern neighbours and we have right-wingers who cannot even seem to understand that we’re a separate country. That said, we also have a lot of people here who’ve committed to avoiding buying from the US wherever possible and that’s pretty awesome.
A LOT of money from the US goes toward funding right-wing extremism across the world. It’s hard to fight back against it, and it would be a lot easier if they’d stop falling for the most obvious, disgusting lies and conmen.