Far-right pastor shocks with statement godly women 'shouldn’t speak’ in public
A Christian nationalist pastor launched into a tirade about how women are betraying the national order of God by being engaged in public life altogether, according to Right Wing Watch.
The pastor, Joel Webbon, was speaking on The Rift, a far-right splinter network founded by Elijah Schaffer, described by People for the American Way as "a racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic right-wing host and commentator who was once fired from The Blaze for allegedly drunkenly groping a female colleague."
Webbon, speaking with Schaffer during an interview in Florida to discuss their future collaboration, completely agreed with Schaffer's angry take on women.
"I hate what women have become," said Schaffer. "And I do hate it when women expect men in society to uphold the natural masculine tendencies. Women are literally going after the top 10 percent of men ... they're going for tall, rich, famous men. And men, what do we get? The women, they're just w----s. They can't even cook a Hot Pocket." He went on to say that "women really are just a bunch of holes today ... And I think that a lot of the hatred that I have towards women, and a lot of the hatred a lot of men have towards women, is simply the product of generations of sin and rebellion that have created women to be something that they're not."
Webbon concurred, taking it a step further.
"We can't just pretend that it's a lack of accountability, that it's like, 'Oh, well, there's all these women who are on public platforms and they're speaking and they're doing this and they're doing that and it's just the fact that we don't acknowledge that women have faults and the fact that we never speak about their sin and that we never hold them accountable.' No, they shouldn't be speaking. Period. The public sphere is not the realm of women," he said.
Christian nationalism is an extreme splinter ideology that holds that Christians, or at least right-wing Christians, have a right to rule over America and fundamentally define its laws and culture. These groups have increasing influence in the Trump administration, with even the Department of Homeland Security using Christian nationalist rhetoric to recruit people for Trump's mass deportation project.