{"id":2475321,"date":"2025-08-15T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-clarifies-hegseth-supports-womens-right-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T18:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:39:27","slug":"pentagon-clarifies-hegseth-supports-womens-right-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-clarifies-hegseth-supports-womens-right-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon clarifies Hegseth supports women&#8217;s right to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-clarifies-hegseth-supports-womens-right-to-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2475321&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Pentagon clarified that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth supports women&#8217;s right to vote after he reposted a video featuring Pastor Douglas Wilson, who advocated repealing the 19th Amendment. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >video included controversial statements<\/a> such as families voting as households, men casting ballots, making the U.S. a &#8220;Christian nation,&#8221; criminalizing gay sex, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-parents-raise-teens-with-better-mental-health-study\/\" title=\"Study finds that teens raised by conservative parents have better mental health\">expressing affection<\/a> between slaves and their owners. Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson emphasized that Hegseth firmly supports women&#8217;s voting rights and appreciates many of Wilson&#8217;s teachings, but did not specify which views from the video Hegseth shares. Although Hegseth previously questioned women serving in combat roles, he has since reversed that stance, affirming his support for women in the military. The Pentagon also noted that female recruitment numbers continue to rise steadily, unaffected by the controversy.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-4686-3758\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:14832835450050406,size:[0, 0],id:\"ld-4686-3758\"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.decide.dev\/_js\/ajs.js\";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,\"script\",\"ld-ajs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Pentagon clarifies Hegseth supports women&rsquo;s right to vote<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2204000\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The Pentagon clarified on Thursday that Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3496965\/hegseth-not-tipping-my-hand-us-troop-deployment-mexico-cartels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> supports women&rsquo;s right to vote, after he reposted a video of a pastor saying the opposite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Of course, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-new-press-secretary-thinks-russia-stole-the-2016-election-shes-a-perfect-fit\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s New Press ... Thinks Russia Stole the 2016 Election. She\u2019s a Perfect Fit.\">secretary thinks<\/a> that women should have the right to vote. That&rsquo;s a stupid question,&rdquo; Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told reporters during Thursday&rsquo;s briefing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3500965\/louisiana-attorney-general-sues-roblox-over-child-safety-concerns\/\">Louisiana attorney general sues internet game Roblox over child safety concerns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3501481\/sailors-return-to-san-diego-after-extended-navy-deployment\/\">Sailors return to San Diego after extended Navy deployment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3501380\/putin-stop-killing-civilians-taps-ear-shrugs\/\">Putin taps ear and shrugs when asked whether he would stop &#8216;killing civilians&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Hegseth reposted a video of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/08\/politics\/video\/christian-nationalist-doug-wilson-pam-brown-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"CNN\">CNN<\/a> segment interviewing self-described Christian Nationalist Pastor Douglas Wilson, who supports repealing the 19th Amendment. Other pastors were featured in the video who also supported the idea, saying families should vote as households and men should cast the ballots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth shared the video on X with a message: &ldquo;All of Christ for All of life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All of Christ for All of Life. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QqXhqZFStv\">https:\/\/t.co\/QqXhqZFStv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteHegseth\/status\/1953626931234054558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;The secretary is a proud member of a church that is affiliated with the congregation of reformed evangelical churches, which was founded by Pastor Doug Wilson,&rdquo; Kingsley Wilson told reporters. &ldquo;The secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson&rsquo;s writings and teachings.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The video also featured Douglas Wilson expressing a desire to make the United States &ldquo;a Christian nation,&rdquo; supporting criminalizing gay sex, and claiming that there was a &ldquo;genuine affection&rdquo; between slaves and their owners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kingsley Wilson declined to say which aspects of the video Hegseth does or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t support.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Hegseth] appreciates many of [Douglas Wilson&rsquo;s] writings and teachings. I&rsquo;m not going to litigate every single aspect of what he may or may not believe in a certain video,&rdquo; Kingsley Wilson told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth made statements in the past arguing that women should not serve in combat roles, but has since backtracked on those comments, saying he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3363995\/pete-hegseth-promises-equal-combat-standards-men-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">supports all women who serve<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pentagon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The Pentagon<\/a> shared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, &#039;Trump is a Tyrant&#039; (...)\">press conference<\/a> that over 7,200 more women have enlisted so far this fiscal year than at this point last fiscal year, increasing from 16,700 to nearly 24,000 enlistees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kingsley Wilson signaled that Hegseth&rsquo;s reposting of the video will not affect recruitment numbers for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3394692\/pete-hegseth-wps-program-ended-pentagon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">women<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3501283\/b-2-stealth-bombers-alaska-base-trump-putin-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">PUTIN GREETED BY US MILITARY MIGHT AS B-2 STEALTH BOMBER AND F-35S FLY OVER ALASKA SUMMIT<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do not anticipate that recruitment will drop,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Everything we are seeing indicates that it is going to continue to break records and to skyrocket, and that&rsquo;s for men and women across all of the branches.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Examiner <\/em>reached out to the Pentagon for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2204000\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2204000\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon confirms Hegseth backs women&#8217;s voting rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":2475322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25030603330374.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[45173,3761,32276],"class_list":["post-2475321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-hegseth","tag-pentagon","tag-womens-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25030603330374.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475329,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475321\/revisions\/2475329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2475322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}