On August 7, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X a clip of a CNN segment featuring Doug Wilson, the pastor who cofounded the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), the extremist Christian nationalist sect that Hegseth joined in 2018. Hegseth added a catchphrase to the post that he learned from the church, “All of Christ for All of Life.”

In the video itself, Wilson and other CREC pastors affirm a theocratic and patriarchal vision of the world. Wilson tells CNN, “I’d like to see the nation be a Christian nation, and I’d like to see the world be a Christian world.” Another CREC pastor calls for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which enshrines the right of women to vote, and a female parishioner supports the church’s teaching that wives must submit to their husbands.

I like submission in scene, but having married two self-described independent feminists, it’s really fucking frustrating when I’m expected to handle all the finances.

That sort of submission is really off-putting, so I don’t understand why other men seem to enjoy it.

    • A friend who is a long time sex worker told me she believes it’s all about VERY repressed men with unmanaged mental health issues trying to turn their sexual fetishes into law.

      Clarence Thomas for example becomes a lot easier to understand if you conceptualize him as someone who gets off to being dommed by white women who call him the N word… But has never been able to process it, admit it, or have a normal safe conversation about it because of the culture he’s enmeshed in, and has instead grown old after decades of repressing himself.