Hegseth supports women's right to vote, Pentagon says

15/8/2025 6:26

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth supports a woman's right to vote, the Pentagon said on Thursday, days after he reposted a video on X of a pastor advocating repealing the right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.



"All of Christ for All of Life," Hegseth wrote on his personal X account last week alongside the nearly 7-minute video.



In the reposted video, Pastor Jared Longshore, with the Christ Church, says he would support repealing the Constitution's 19th amendment which in 1920 granted women the right to vote.



"Of course the secretary thinks that women should have the right to vote," Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson told reporters on Thursday. She did not explain why he had reposted the video in the first place.



The video is a CNN segment focusing largely on another pastor, Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist who founded the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. The spokesperson said Hegseth is part of a congregation Pastor Wilson founded.