I'm Worried

Yeah, I know I worry a lot!

This time it is about the military and who is in charge. A person who wants to make this country a Christian Nation! Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said he wants to, "To bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense," "We will revive the warrior ethos and restore trust in our military," "We are leaving wokeness and weakness behind," and "A 'warrior' with 'dust on his boots.'" But the question is what exactly does all this mean? But is doesn't sound like the military that I want.

Well the first thing he did in office was to yank the commandant of the Coast Guard Academy, why? Because she is a woman! He kicked out the Navy Vice Admiral Yvette Davids, the first woman to lead the Naval Academy, and replaced her with Marine Corps Lieutenant General Michael Borgschulte. And he is doing this for other women in leadership or combat positions!

Then there the "Christian Prayer and Worship Service" he started at the Pentagon's auditorium and was broadcast throughout the building on its internal network. It seems to me that there is something in the First Amendment about this? Something about what the Freedom From Religion Foundation, have stated that the event is a "clear violation" of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

How Pete Hegseth’s zeal to bring religiosity to the Pentagon is dividing the military

Former Fox and Friends host’s ultra-conservative Christian nationalism causing ‘frustration’ within ranks, say experts

The Guardian

By Ben Makuch

Thu 14 Aug 2025

While secretary of defense Pete Hegseth’s links to an extremist church and crusader tattoos caused a stir during his confirmation hearings, the former Fox & Friends host is now openly bringing his ultra-conservative brand of christianity to the Pentagon.

Veterans tell the Guardian that Hegseth’s religiosity – rubbing off in new recruitment ads and official US Department of Defense social media activities – is dividing the ranks and doing untold damage to the future of the US military.

In one of the Pentagon’s latest videos that it posted on X – with the message: “We Are One Nation Under God” – paratroopers are seen dropping from the back of airplanes as soldiers in full tactical gear aim assault rifles at an unknown enemy somewhere in the whirling sands of what looks like the Middle East.

“I pursued my enemies and overtook them,” text from the book of Psalms appears across the screen as the scene unfolds in a desert resembling where medieval crusaders once fought. “I did not turn back till they were destroyed.”

And that is what I am afraid of... a Christian Nationalist military!

“Every time Hegseth does one of these things, I’m getting messages from active duty troops, reaching out to me more and more, saying ‘How do I get involved?’,” said Goldsmith, referring to the work his organization has done to out neo-Nazis and far-right links in the military community. “We’ve got active-duty troops who recognize that the military they’re serving in, has become a threat to democracy.”

If this ends up before the Supreme Court... how do think they would rule?

Also for your consideration... In the past we have seen a shift in the makeup of the guard, but when they were used around the border. According to the Brooking Institute,,,

The recent increase in domestic, politically charged deployments, and the rhetoric from some leaders, raises a genuine fear that this non-partisan nature is at risk, with lasting consequences for the Guard's identity and effectiveness.

And now with the deployment to police the cities you are going to see a more polarization where the one who object to their deployments leave while those like bashing heads stay. The church the Defense Secretary is a member of is a Christian Nationalist church, according to AP News...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he’s proud to be part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, an archconservative network of Christian congregations.

Hegseth recently made headlines when he shared a CNN video on social media about CREC, showing its pastors arguing women should not have the right to vote.

Pastor Doug Wilson, a CREC co-founder, leads Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, the network’s flagship location. Jovial and media-friendly, Wilson is no stranger to stirring controversy with his church’s hard-line theology and its embrace of patriarchy and Christian nationalism.

Now couple with all that, the firing of women in leadership positions, the macho rhetoric, his tattoos, religious meetings broadcast through out the Pentagon, yeah... I'm worried about the next Jan6.

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Update 11:30AM a new news article just popped up on my radar...

You gays and lesbians you are also on his radar... The Guardian writes:

The assertion was among many contentious “anti-woke” views expressed in Hegseth’s latest book, The War on Warriors, published this year, in which he lambasted a previous policy – known as don’t ask, don’t tell (DADT) – that tolerated gay service members as long as they did not disclose their sexual orientation, while also excoriating its repeal.

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Policies allowing gay people to serve in the US military have been denounced as part of a “Marxist” agenda aimed at prioritising social justice above combat-readiness by Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled defence secretary pick.

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“At least when it was an ‘Army of One’, they were, you know, [a] tough-looking, go get ’em army,” he said.

“Now you just have the absurdity of ‘I have two mommies and I’m so proud to show them that I can wear the uniform too.’ So they, it’s just like everything else the Marxists and the leftists have done. At first it was camouflaged nicely and now they’re just open about it.”

Hegseth’s aversion to gay people in the military and women in combat was expressed before Trump nominated him for a cabinet position that would give him decision-making power over both policies.

Interviewed this week by CNN, Hegseth – a former army national guard soldier and Fox News host – declined to say whether he still believed it was a mistake to repeal don’t ask, don’t tell.

He also said he supported “all women serving in our military” – despite previously arguing that their presence led to an “erosion in standards”.

Hegseth repeatedly took issue with the concept of female combatants in a chapter of his latest book titled “The (deadly) obsession with women warriors”.

“I’m going to say something politically incorrect that is perfectly commonsensical observation,” he wrote. “Dads push us to take risks. Moms put the training wheels on our bike. We need moms, but not in the military, especially in combat units.”

In another provocative passage, he wrote: “If you train a group of men to treat women equally on the battlefield then you will be hard pressed to ask them to treat women differently at home.”

WOW! Is that sexist or what! "...treat women differently at home.”

And he doesn't want any of those wimpy gays either!