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Hegseth’s Pastor Calls For Criminalizing Homosexuality

Gary Carnivele April 18, 2026

Religion News Service reports:

In Pastor Doug Wilson’s Christian nationalist America, there would be no minarets — only the sound of church bell towers. There would be no statues of Hindu deities or other non-Christian religious symbols in public spaces. Adultery would carry legal penalties, and Obergefell v. Hodges would be overturned. Under that framework, public celebrations of LGBTQ+ identity would not be tolerated.

Wilson went further, offering praise for the 1969 Stonewall raids — the police action against a New York gay bar that sparked the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. He added that said sodomy laws — which were on the books in some of the 50 states until 2003 — should be restored, though not aggressively enforced. “I would not want a sexual Gestapo,” he said. Voting rights would belong to the head of each household — not to individuals. Women in households led by a husband would not.

Read the full article. 

Last month Wilson declared that under his Christian nationalist theocracy, all non-Protestant public events – such a Catholic parades that venerate the Virgin Mary – would be banned. 

Also last month, a separate pastor at Hegseth’s church prayed for God to kill Senate candidate James Talarico.

Twelve states actually still have anti-sodomy laws on the books: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.

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