Hegseth’s Pastor Wants Women Out of Voting Booths, Back in Kitchens — the Way the Bible Intended

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth raised eyebrows—and possibly time-traveled to 1918—after reposting a video of pastors from a Christian nationalist church calling for the repeal of women’s right to vote.

The clip, part of a report on Doug Wilson and the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, featured pastors advocating “household voting,” in which men speak for the family at the ballot box while women “submit to their husbands” and, ideally, “baste something.”

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed Hegseth is “a proud member” of a CREC-affiliated church and “very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson’s writings and teachings.” These writings, critics note, often sound like they were ghostwritten by a 17th-century Puritan with a head injury.

Critics have called the views “extreme” and “dangerous,” while supporters insist they would simplify elections by “cutting voter lines in half.”

Hegseth has not issued an apology, telling allies that “a true Christian nation can’t happen until women are out of the voting booth and back where the Bible and my pastor agree they belong—labeling Tupperware.”