Does Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Believe Women Should Have the Right to Vote?

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth raised an alarming question last Thursday when he reposted a seven-minute CNN segment on X.

The video he reposted was about the influential pastor Doug Wilson, a leading theologian of the Christian nationalist right. In the clip, a female CNN reporter, Pamela Brown, followed Wilson around his base in Moscow, Idaho, where Wilson explained his particular biblical views on gender. In his vision of an ideal Christian society, Brown noted, women wouldn’t be able to vote.

This stance wasn’t a single comment; it was a major focus of the clip. A fellow pastor at Wilson’s church argued that ideally, people should vote as households, with men