Douglas Wilson's influence over Moscow Idaho has not been without controversy.
In a 2021 Vice exposé, former members of "Christ Church" alleged that ministers had encouraged them to stay in abusive relationships.
That tracks with Wilson’s 1999 book, "Fidelity: How to Be a One-Woman Man",
in which he wrote,
“The sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party.
A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants.
A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.”
For that reason, Wilson wrote, the dynamic of a #dominant #man and a #submissive #woman is
“an erotic necessity.”
(Wilson called allegations of the church urging women to stay in abusive relationships “categorically false.”)
Wilson has also promoted another form of dominance.
In the 1996 book "Southern Slavery: As It Was",
Wilson and his co-author argued that the master-slave dynamic was “a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence,”
-- and “there has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world” as that of the antebellum South.
(In a 2020 blog post, Wilson said he now allows that while “the benevolent master is not a myth, the idea of the horrific taskmaster is no abolitionist myth either.”)
When I asked Wilson about his controversial statements, he likened himself to a chef who strategically deploys jalapeno peppers:
“Then some of my enemies online have combed through my writings, have gathered up all the jalapenos and put them on one Ritz cracker.”
In July, at the "National Conservatism Conference"
in Washington, DC, Wilson shared the stage with Sens. Josh #Hawley (R-Mo.),
Ron #Johnson (R-Wis.),
and Mike #Lee (R-Utah),
as well as #Vance,
who auditioned his “America is a people” bit a week before his star turn at the GOP convention.
Wilson agrees with Vance’s suggestion that children should be allotted votes
-- managed by their parents.
“I would like to see elections where households vote,” he told me.
Men, as the heads of households, would actually cast the votes.
Though he believes that women’s suffrage was “a mistake,”
he would allow a special exception for single mothers.
Wilson offered the crowd a few one-liners
(“I’m a Presbyterian, not a Lesbyterian”),
but mostly, he talked about the persecution of Christians:
“It used to be that the sexually troubled had to keep their kinks hidden away in the closet,” he mused.
“Now it is the conservative Christian who needs to keep his virtues hidden in the recesses of the closet.”
After the "National Conservatism Conference", Wilson appeared at the "Believers’ Summit",
which was headlined by #Trump and hosted by the conservative political group #Turning #Point #USA.
But it’s not just conferences and interviews with the likes of #Tucker #Carlson where Wilson promotes his ideas.
He has a blog, a podcast, and a YouTube channel, thanks mostly to the urging of his children and younger colleagues.
One example is that every year since 2018, Wilson has been celebrating what he calls
No Quarter November:
“The month where we say out loud what everyone is thinking.”
In a 2023 video, which was the brainchild of one of his sons, Wilson sits at a sumptuously appointed Thanksgiving table,
surrounded by his children and grandchildren,
and addresses the camera.
“If you think of my blog as a shotgun,” he says,
“this is the month when I saw off all my typical, careful qualifications and blast away with a double-barreled shorty.”
His wife, clad in an apron, brings out a turkey and places it in front of him,
and then the tranquil scene is interrupted by a blaring alarm and a glowing red “perimeter breach” sign.
Wilson excuses himself, heads to his garage, and straps on a #flamethrower.
After using it to light a cigar, he aims the fire at cardboard cutouts of Disney princesses Elsa and Ariel, and the logos of Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Netflix.
Wilson’s willingness to make campy content sets him apart, says Rachel Tabachnick,
an extremism researcher who has been studying Christian nationalism for decades.
“Instead of a crotchety old guy talking about stoning people, he’s like, super cool,” she says. “He’s witty.”
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