Salon reports:
Hegseth — now on his third marriage — has claimed that he rediscovered Christ, saying “faith became real” to him in 2018. He became deeply involved with the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), moving to Tennessee to enroll his children in a branch of this fundamentalist organization.
He also joined the associated denomination, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. Both are led by Doug Wilson, an untrained and self-proclaimed pastor who advocates for Christian nationalism and has become famous for his trollish promotion of his far-right political views.
At the center of Wilson’s philosophy is a misogyny so overt that it’s sometimes hard to believe he’s serious. In one famous passage from his book on marriage, Wilson suggests that sexual violence is women’s fault for not being submissive enough. “
Read the full article. There’s so much more. Yesterday it was reported that Hegseth was drunkenly chanting “kill all Muslims” at a bar.
In 2018, Hegseth’s mother called him out as an “abuser” and asked him to “get some help.”
Instead, he joined a church with a long history of shielding abusers, blaming victims, and saying men “dream of being rapists” because of feminism.
www.salon.com/2024/12/03/p…
— Amanda Marcotte (@amandamarcotte.bsky.social) December 3, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Why read past headlines: Forget the holiday. I spent it researching and talking to sources.
Hegseth’s church is run by an overt Christian nationalist.
He also “holds the most extreme views of women’s submission found in any form of Christianity.”
www.salon.com/2024/12/03/p…
— Amanda Marcotte (@amandamarcotte.bsky.social) December 3, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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