Pete Hegseth while hosting Fox & Friends in Goolee's Grill in Rehoboth Beach on Friday, April 26, 2019. He and talked to diners about Joe Biden's run for president. | Chuck Snyder/Special to The News Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn ImagesFar-right Christian Nationalist commentator Joshua Haymes, host of the Reformation Red Pill podcast, has accused “gay race commie globalism” for increasing the number of Muslims in the United States.
“Islam and Christian civilization are incompatible; they’ve been at odds with each other for century, millenia, and by the grace of god, modern Christian western civilization will wake up to this fact and put an end to gay race [communist] globalism that has been importing Mohammedans by the millions into our country once and for all,” he said in a recent podcast.
While “globalism” is often used by right-wingers and Christian Nationalists as an antisemitic dog-whistle that refers to Jewish people, conservative Christians and Republicans have long referred to progressive, LGBTQ+-inclusive, and anti-racist aims as a form of “cultural Marxism” that allegedly threatens western Christian capitalism.
Haymes is an Islamophobe associated with Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a far-right church located outside of Nashville, Tennessee, that is aligned with Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson and has Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a member.
Haymes is aligned with the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), a Christian Nationalist denomination that believes the United States should be subject to biblical law.
Haymes has said that Democrats and the media hate Hegseth because he is “a straight, white, Christian man” who will stop them from establishing a “gay race commie utopia.”
Haymes has previously called for executing adulterers and people who have abortions, seemingly called for the deaths of LGBTQ+ Pride marchers, and also considers liberalism a greater threat to the nation than neo-Nazism.
In the past, Haymes has encouraged other Christian Nationalists to learn to defend slavery because the Bible makes it clear that “it is not inherently evil to own another human being.”
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