U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a video Thursday night featuring a Christian nationalist church where pastors called for repealing women’s right to vote, highlighting his close ties to the church’s controversial views.

The nearly seven-minute CNN report focused on Doug Wilson, cofounder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC). It included a pastor advocating to remove women’s voting rights from the Constitution, another proposing household-based voting, and a female church member expressing submission to her husband.

Accompanying the video on social media platform X, Hegseth wrote, “All of Christ for All of Life.” His post received over 12,000 likes and 2,000 shares, drawing both support and criticism for promoting Christian nationalist ideology.

Doug Pagitt, pastor and head of progressive evangelical group Vote Common Good, condemned the views as held by “small fringes of Christians” and described Hegseth’s amplification as “very disturbing.”

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Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell told the Associated Press that Hegseth is “a proud member” of a church affiliated with CREC and values many of Wilson’s teachings.

In May, Hegseth invited his personal pastor, Brooks Potteiger, to lead Christian prayer services at the Pentagon during working hours, sending official invitations to Defense Department staff and service members.

Wilson told CNN, “I’d like to see the nation be a Christian nation, and I’d like to see the world be a Christian world.”

Source: Agency