Dr. Jemar Tisby, a Black scholar of religion, has important things to say about Douglas Wilson, the right-wing Reformed minister whose patriarchal ideas (women should not be allowed to vote, gay people should be criminalized) Pete Hegseth is now shopping around. Jemar has himself been personally targeted by Wilson.

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Douglas Wilson’s Theology Predicted Today’s Politics

What happens in politics is downstream of what happens in the church

(jemartisby.substack.com)

Tisby writes,

"If we had paid attention to [Douglas] Wilson and the spread of his ideology, we could have foreseen the Trump regime coming.

What happens in politics is downstream of what happens in the church. …

They want to strip women of bodily autonomy. They have recently challenged marriage equality. They are under orders to gerrymander districts to guarantee Republican wins."

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"They have demonized and brutalized immigrants from certain countries. Now they are attempting to take over cities with large Black populations in the name of law and order.

This will result in a very small group of wealthy people—mostly white, mostly male, mostly Christian nationalist—imposing minority rule on the majority who disagree with their leadership and policies."

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"In the end, Wilson, this political regime, and its supporters want the United States to look a lot like the antebellum South. ...

What we see in Douglas Wilson’s theology today will become someone’s policy tomorrow.

If a church teaches hierarchy, exclusion, and authoritarian control, it will eventually shape a politics that enforces those same values."

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"And once that theology is embedded in law, it affects everyone — not just the people in the pews.

That’s why it matters who and what we platform in our churches."

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"For Wilson, Hegseth represents a unique chance to spread his extreme ideology. Some at his church oppose female suffrage; his denomination is against women in combat, homosexuality, abortion, and pushes for an extremely traditional interpretation of family structure."

~ Josh Kovensky and Emine Yücel

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Pete and the Preacher Man

For now, the pastor Doug Wilson is having his moment. Wilson is a radical Idaho pastor who, as I’ve written, wants to try to make America Christian again by establishing a theocracy.

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"Yes, they're coming for same-sex marriage. This was always part of the right-wing plan. And it won't stop here."

~ Jill Filipovic

#Trump #Republicans #Obergefell #SameSexMarriage #WhiteChristianNationalism #homophobia #MAGA #SupremeCourt #contraception #women #BirthControl #ReproductiveRights
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Yes, They're Coming for Same-Sex Marriage

This was always part of the right-wing plan. And it won't stop here.

(jill.substack.com)

"Wilson is only one of the crackpot Men of God affiliated with Vance and Hegseth who openly proclaim that marital rape is impossible. … 'The sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party,' Wilson has written in one of his books. 'A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts…True authority and true submission are therefore an erotic necessity.'"

~ Nina Burleigh

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Trumpworld Weenies and the Rock-Ribbed Ladies Holding Them Up

Bargain with the Devil

(www.americanfreakshow.news)