Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has expressed pride in being part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a conservative Christian network.

The good news is, the defense secretary’s spokesperson said he supports a woman’s right to vote. The bad news is they had to clarify in the first place.

Pete Hegseth is apparently following Donald Trump’s lead in more ways than one. A new social media video pushing a MAGA-coded fitness challenge has revealed the defense secretary has redecorated the Pentagon with photos—of himself.

Pete Hegseth, widely considered the least qualified Defense secretary in American history, is hardly anyone’s version of the ideal Christian husband and father. Only 45 years old, he’s been married three times.

The Defense Secretary thinks that fighting wars are contests of warrior masculinity. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will attend President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, according to two senior Defense Department officials.

The Christian nationalist movement’s embrace of people like this can be understood in much the same way as the massive hoard of pornography found on the outwardly pious Osama bin Laden’s hard drives after his death: It shows that terrorism was his primary commitment, and his religion was a situationally dispensable secondary matter.

During a hearing held by the Senate Armed Services Committee several weeks ago, Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) got into a tense exchange with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over his ties to Laura Loomer.