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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Pete Hegseth does believe in a woman’s right to vote, Pentagon says after video controversy

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth does believe in a woman’s right to vote, the Pentagon has insisted, a week after he ignited a controversy by posting a video on X of a Christian evangelist suggesting that right should be repealed.

Hegseth, 45, posted a seven-minute CNN segment on his account last Friday profiling Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who founded the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches and whose congregation the secretary belongs to, with the comment: “All of Christ for All of Life.”

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