发布时间：2026年2月19日，美国东部时间下午1:17
作者：卡尼塔·艾耶、海莉·布里茨基
一位支持废除女性选举权、认为同性恋应属犯罪的争议性牧师本周在五角大楼主持了一场礼拜仪式，他表示是由国防部长皮特·赫格斯邀请的。
在五角大楼礼堂进行的15分钟布道中，道格拉斯·威尔逊牧师（Douglas Wilson）发表了以军事为主题的布道，其中穿插着关于将耶稣基督置于首位以及耶稣通过信徒能实现什么的笑话，并通过国防部内部电视网络进行了直播。
“上帝可以随心所欲，我们现在应该明白，他喜欢做的是将最不可能的材料转化为荣耀的成就，”威尔逊在布道视频中说道（该视频由美国有线电视新闻网获得）。“以五角大楼的祈祷会为例，许多更离奇的事情都发生过。上帝是伟大的。”
一位参加仪式的消息人士告诉美国有线电视新闻网，威尔逊的信息“相当平淡”，并避免了政治言论。与会者没有听到威尔逊关于女性在军队和战斗中的立场。
这位自称基督教民族主义者的牧师在爱达荷州莫斯科市于20世纪70年代创立了自己的教会，如今其教会网络已发展到全球150多个教堂，他是在“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）保守派中影响力上升的基督教宗教领袖之一。赫格斯是特朗普政府中这位牧师最突出和公开的追随者。
威尔逊公开表示，他相信父权制社会，女性应服从丈夫，并支持废除赋予女性选举权的第19修正案。在他的教会中，女性被禁止担任领导职务，也不允许在教会决策中投票。
他还主张美国应采用基督教神权政治，并坚持对社会的圣经解读。
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赫格斯是威尔逊在田纳西州的一家教会的成员，他表示自己于2022年搬到该州，以便让孩子进入由威尔逊参与创立的基督教学校网络。
五角大楼发言人肖恩·帕内尔此前对美国有线电视新闻网表示：“国防部长是与道格·威尔逊牧师创立的改革派福音派教会有联系的教会的自豪成员。部长非常欣赏威尔逊先生的许多著作和教义。”
五角大楼的快速反应X（原推特）账号发布了照片，证实威尔逊周二出席了活动。
布道结束后，赫格斯与威尔逊一同登台，但他表示自己刚从另一场会议赶来，错过了牧师的讲话。
“服务联盟”女性成员联合创始人克里斯·富尔表示，鉴于威尔逊在女性待遇和军队中女性地位问题上的既定观点，邀请他来五角大楼“极其不合适”。
“有人代表与陆军价值观完全相悖的观点在五角大楼的教派特定基督教宗教仪式上发言，这绝对是对房间里每个人的侮辱，”富尔说。“当国防部长受到一个认为只有白人男性才值得拥有职位的人的强烈影响时，你现在拥有的国防部长就不会在整个人才库中寻找最优秀和最聪明的人。”
参加布道的消息人士称，这是一场“完全自愿的祈祷仪式”，威尔逊“只是过去一年中来自不同新教教派的众多传教士之一”。
他们表示，五角大楼也有其他宗教的服务活动，并且看到过犹太教和佛教服务的广告。
自唐纳德·特朗普总统去年重返白宫以来，五角大楼是几个开始以祈祷开场、举办定期宗教服务并在社交媒体上发布圣经经文和基督教图像的政府机构之一。
当被问及赫格斯每月的祈祷仪式以及有关其侵蚀长期以来政教分离传统的批评时，威尔逊告诉美国有线电视新闻网：“战争部长发起这场祈祷仪式的行为正在破坏‘长期的政教分离’，但前提是‘长期’仅限于最近几十年。”
“从共和国建立之初并非如此，”威尔逊补充道。“礼拜仪式过去常在国会大厦举行，从大厦建成前就开始了，一直持续到内战时期。那里的礼拜者包括杰斐逊和麦迪逊等伟人。”
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Hegseth invited pastor who calls for Christian theocracy to lead Pentagon prayer service
PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2026, 1:17 PM ET / By Kaanita Iyer, Haley Britzky
A controversial pastor who supports repealing women’s right to vote and believes homosexuality should be a crime led a worship service at the Pentagon this week, saying he was invited by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
During a 15-minute sermon in the Pentagon’s auditorium and broadcast live on the department’s internal TV network, Douglas Wilson delivered a sermon sprinkled with military-themed jokes about putting Jesus Christ first and what Jesus can accomplish through believers.
“God can do what he likes, and as we should know by now, what he likes to do is to take the most unlikely materials and do something glorious with it,” Wilson said, according to video of the sermon obtained by CNN. “Take a prayer meeting at the Pentagon for a possible example. Many stranger things have happened. God is great.”
A source who attended the service told CNN Wilson’s message was “pretty vanilla” and steered clear of political rhetoric. Attendees didn’t hear Wilson’s stance on women in the military and in combat.
The service from Wilson, a self-described Christian nationalist, was part of a regular monthly Christian worship series Hegseth started at the department last summer that critics say has underscored the erosion of the separation of church and state under the Trump administration.
The pastor, who founded his church in Moscow, Idaho, in the 1970s and has since grown it to a network of more than 150 churches internationally, is part of an ascendant group of Christian religious leaders finding influence among MAGA conservatives. Hegseth is the pastor’s most prominent and public follower in the Trump administration.
Wilson has publicly described his belief in a patriarchal society where women are expected to submit to their husbands and supports repealing the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Women are banned from leadership positions in his church and are not allowed to vote in congregational decisions.
He has also advocated for the idea that the US should adopt a Christian theocracy and adhere to a biblical interpretation of society.
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Hegseth is a member of one of Wilson’s churches in Tennessee and has said he moved to the state in 2022 to send his kids to a school that’s part of a Christian network that Wilson helped found.
In a previous statement to CNN, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said: “The Secretary is a proud member of a church affiliated with the Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches, which was founded by Pastor Doug Wilson. The Secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson’s writings and teachings.”
The Pentagon’s rapid response X account posted photos confirming Wilson’s attendance on Tuesday.
Hegseth joined Wilson on stage after his sermon, but said he had been running from another meeting and missed the pastor’s remarks.
Kris Fuhr, co-founder of the Women in the Service Coalition, said bringing Wilson to the Pentagon was “beyond inappropriate” given his well-established views on the treatment of women and women in the military.
“It was an absolute insult to everyone that room, that someone who represents views that are a total 180 from Army values would be allowed to speak at a denominational-specific, Christian religious service in the Pentagon,” Fuhr said. “When you have a secretary of defense who is so strongly influenced by someone who thinks only white men are worthy, you now have a Secretary of Defense who is not looking for the best and the brightest across his entire talent pool.”
The source who attended the sermon said this is a “totally voluntary prayer service” and that Wilson is “one of many (preachers) over the last year who have come from several different Protestant denominations.”
They said there are services for other religions and that they’ve seen Jewish and Buddhist services advertised as well.
The Pentagon is one of several government agencies that have moved to open meetings with a prayer, host regular faith services and post Bible verses and Christian imagery on social media since President Donald Trump returned to office last year.
When asked Thursday about Hegseth’s monthly prayer service and criticism that it is eroding the longstanding tradition of separation of church and state, Wilson told CNN, “The actions taken by the Secretary of War in starting this prayer service are disrupting the ‘longstanding separation of church and state,’ but only if ‘longstanding’ is limited to recent decades.”
“From the Founding of the republic it was not so,” Wilson added. “Worship services used to be held in the Capitol building, starting before the building was completed, and lasting up until the Civil War. Worshipers in that place included such worthies as Jefferson and Madison.”
CNN has reached out to the Department of Defense for comment.
CNN’s Pamela Brown, Jeremy Herb, Shoshana Dubnow, René Marsh and Steve Contorno contributed to this report.
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