Pete Hegseth, widely considered the least qualified defense secretary in the history of the United States, is not the version of anyone from the ideal husband and Christian father.
Only 45 years, has been married three times.
His first marriage, with his high school girlfriend, lasted only four years, deteriorating after Hegseth admitted extramarital issues.
A couple of years later, he married his second wife, with whom he had three children. During that marriage, he generated a child with a Fox News producer who finally became his third wife.
He paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault (denies the assault). Routinely he passed out drunk in family gatherings and behaved badly in public when he is haunted, according to numerous witnesses. His own mother once accused him of being “a women's abuser”, although he later retracted his statements when Hegseth faced the Senate's confirmation.
Even so, the republican majority of the Senate, intensified by President Trump, confirmed his appointment. Hegseth has two qualities that triumphs rewards over all others. He is blindly loyal to the president, and looks good on television.
After its installation, Hegseth proceeded to shoot at the best military bras that turned out to be black or women or both. It has restored the names of the confederate generals to the bases of the army (Bragg and Benning). His little “anti-dispected” crusade led him to strip the name of the leader of the gay rights murdered Harvey Milk, a former naval officer who served honorably, of a Navy ship. And he has considered doing the same with a ship named in honor of the abolitionist hero and the Civil War Harriet Tubman. He has said that women do not belong to combat roles, and has expelled transgender soldiers, cruelly stripping them of the pensions they won for their service.
In March, he shared classified information about an imminent American air attack in Yemen in a group of unusual signals that included his wife, by the way and the Atlantic editor, by accident.
In short, he is the least serious man who has directed the armed forces of this nation.
As if all that were not discouraged enough, Hegseth is now in bed (metaphorically) with a crossed Christian nationalist.
Earlier this month, Hegesh made waves when he published a CNN interview with Douglas Wilson, the pastor and the theocrat who is working hard to return to the rights of all Americans who is not white, Christian and man again.
In the interview, Wilson presented his patriarchal, misogynary, authoritarian and homophobic opinions.
Women, he said, should serve as “executive director of the house” and should not have the right to vote. (Your men can do that for them). Gay marriage and gay sex must be prohibited once again. “We know that sodomy is worse than slavery by how God responds,” CNN Brown told Pamela Brown. (Slavery is “non -biblical,” he said, although he defended it strangely once, writing in 1990 a brochure that “slavery produced in the south a genuine affection between the races that we believe we can say has never existed in any nation before the war or since then”).
When an advanced position of his church was opened in Washington, DC., In July, Hegseth and his family were among the faithful. CNN described the presence of Hegesh as “a great achievement” for Wilson.
“Everything of Christ for a lifetime,” Hegseth wrote as he supported and published the interview again. That is the motto of the expanding universe of Wilson, which includes his church of Christ in Moscow, Idaho, the center of his communion of renovated evangelical churches, a network of more than 100 churches on four continents, parish schools, a university, a editorial and media platforms. “Every Christ for a lifetime” is an abbreviation for the belief that Christian doctrines should shape each part of life, including government, culture and education.
Wilson is a prolific author of books with titles such as “His hand in marriage”, “federal husband” and “reforming marriage.” His book “Fidelity” teaches “what means to be a single woman.” Doubtful you have crossed the Hegseth desktop.
“God hates divorce,” Wilson writes in one of his books.
Given the way sexual pleasure is celebrated in the Old and New Testament, Wilson has a peculiarly dim vision of sex. I mean, how many weddings have been graceful with recitations of Solomon's song, with their allusions disguised to pleasant sexual intimacy? (“That I kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! Because your love is better than wine”).
Wilson's world is considerably less sensual.
“A man penetrates, conquered, colonizes, plants,” he writes in “Fidelity.” “A woman receives, yields, accepts.” Mutual sexual pleasure seems out of discussion: “The sexual act cannot be become a party of egalitarian pleasure.” Puaj.
There is nothing particularly new here; Wilson's ideology is just another version of patriarchal figures that use religion to fight the equal movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Basically they are the Hatemonderers of the Baptist Church of Westboro dressed in respectable clothes.
“Some people can combine Christian nationalism and Christianity because both use the symbols and language of Christianity, such as a Bible, a cross and songs of worship,” says the Christian group against Christian nationalism on their website. “But Christian nationalism uses the sheet of Christianity to advance in its own objectives: to point to a political figure, a party or an ideology instead of Jesus.”
What you have in people like Hegseth and Wilson are authoritarian men who hide behind their religion to execute the most non -Christian agendas.
God can hate divorce, but from my reading of the Bible, God hates even more hypocrisy.
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