The USA takes another step towards Margaret Atwood's prescient Gilead as one of the Trump administration's highest ranking members re-tweets some offensive drivel from a self-described "Christian nationalist" pastor.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth couldn't help himself and re-tweeted an X posting about a CNN interview with Doug Wilson, senior pastor at the Christ Church in Idaho, who took the opportunity to air some of his nasty (and, let it be said, distinctly un-Christian) beliefs. And I'm sure he has many more, much nastier, beliefs he did not considered fit for prime time.
Among the ideas that Hegseth seems to approve of are: "women are the kind of people that people come out of" (a rather awkward phraseology, but you know what he means); women are the "chief executive of the home"; women should have "three or four or five" children, because that is their function; women should "submit" to their husbands; and more specifically, women should vote with their husbands, and not pursue their own political leanings; and more.
On other matters, Wilson defended his previous comments about slaves sharing a mutual affection with their masters, and his view that sodomy should be recriminalized.
Hegseth and his family regularly attend another church established by Wilson and his Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches organization in Washington DC.
Remember, this is the man notionally in charge of the most powerful military in the world (although in practice he just does whatever he think Donald Trump would like, or whatever he is told to do by Trump).
Don't you just feel that these old grey men are dragging us down, inexorably, into a New Dark Age?
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