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Pastor Doug Wilson says women should not be allowed to vote

newsJul 7, 202625354

NPR profiles Idaho pastor Doug Wilson as a Christian nationalist who says women should not be allowed to vote and that homosexuality should be criminalized. Wilson told NPR he wants to repeal women's suffrage and to move the United States toward a Christian theocracy in which non-Christians cannot hold public office. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth invited Wilson to preach at the Pentagon earlier this year as part of Hegseth's monthly Christian worship service, a connection NPR highlights as helping bring Wilson into more mainstream government circles. NPR reports critics and commentators warned that Wilson's views challenge core democratic and legal norms, while Wilson and his supporters cast his proposals as restoring a Christian public order. The story centers on the growing visibility of Wilson's anti-suffrage, Christian nationalist agenda and the concrete tie between Wilson and a senior Defense Department official that is expanding his reach.

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