Where Testosterone and the Bible Are the 'New Punk Rock'

[Coventina]

At Freedom Con, there were feats of strength and CrossFit contests. There was an obstacle course and a station for practicing how to change a tire. There was prayer and music, and original verse from a pastor and tactical gear salesman known as the Warrior Poet. There were exhortations from the stage to run for office, to have more babies, and to reject “woke secular gay paganism.”

“Heterosexual, sober men who marry girls and read Bibles, we’re the new punk rock!” the pastor Mark Driscoll said in a fiery sermon that brought attendees to their feet.

More than 4,500 men gathered in central Washington over Father’s Day weekend for a testosterone-fueled celebration of Christianity and patriotism that culminated in a statement calling conservative Christian men “to rise as statesmen.”

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The two-day event took place just outside the small town of George, Washington, against the backdrop of America’s 250th anniversary. The amalgam of political activation, Christian worship and male bonding provided a glimpse of an emerging right-wing movement with masculinity as its unifying force.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/us/politics/freedom-con-christian-men.html?

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Heterosexual, sober men who marry girls and read Bibles

Notice, they want GIRLS, not WOMEN!

[pfitz59]

1. They want young GIRLS

because WOMEN are defiant.

[RockRaven]

2. Those guys are losers and dorks. Has nobody ever called them that to their face?

Or have too many people called them that to their face?

[Ilsa]

3. "Girls" was the 1950s and 60s way to keep women

viewed as immature, juvenile, and needing a father figure for a husband to dominate every aspect of her life, including finances, baby-making, etc.

[maxsolomon]

4. Driscoll 100% doesn't understand Punk.

or Post-Punk for that matter.

[Bettie]

5. My thought exactly

Punk is not "extra-extra white male privelege establishment".

Right wing white men literally rule the world at this point....and they are whining that they don't have enough. Who gets to tell them that it's the RICH white men who are actually fucking up their lives?

[AStern]

6. I've got some punk rock for this Promise Keepers redux

[jmowreader]

7. They held it at The Gorge Amphitheatre, not in George itself

The "small town of George, Washington" is a wide spot in the road where the only businesses are a fruit warehouse, a Mexican restaurant, a guy that fixes cars and a truck stop.

I do think it's pretty funny that Manly Evangelical Men are having to be taught how to change tires. Strange thing is, I've been driving cars for nearly 50 years and I have NEVER had a flat tire!

[mwmisses4289]

9. I know how to change a tire.

My dad, husband, and father in law all made sure I knew how to do it. I can't anymore, don't really have the hand strength, but I have done so in the past. Have also changed out the brakes on my care, and know how to at least check fluids on my car.

[Aristus]

13. I'm a far-left, LGBTQ+-friendly, woke liberal, and I know how to change a tire.

Not only that, but in the Army, I changed tank road-wheels, and cargo truck tires. Let's see these "manly men" do that!

[mwmisses4289]

8. Yeah, that phrasing caught my eye also.

So they are openly advocating pedophilia?
These idgits wouldn't know Christ and true Christianity if they came up and smacked them upside the head.

[Oneironaut]

10. Nothing says Punk like conformity, obedience to government, and, a very narrow dress code.

Sorry Conservatives - Conservatism will never be cool. You guys sound ridiculous and like you’re so desperate to be “underground” and edgy, just like how Conservatives try to recruit rappers for a similar purpose (sweaty old white rich Conservatives have street cred! ).

It’s really lame and LARPy, not to mention inauthentic.

[3catwoman3]

11. Sounds like a subset/offshoot of the Promise Keepers...

...or Oath Keepers, or whatever the hell they were called.

No thanks.

[mr715]

12. Ridiculous...

Although there has always been a weird Christian-weight training thing

[Norrrm]

14. Gaetz Sneers At 'Over-Educated' Women Protesting SCOTUS Draft Striking Down Roe

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142911974

Gaetz Sneers At 'Over-Educated' Women Protesting SCOTUS Draft Striking Down Roe

"over-educated" - meaning: legal age

Think...... Josh Duggar, Ted Nugent, Duck Dynasty, Roy Moore, DJT.
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Duck Dynasty Phil Robertson marry teens advice

Duck Dynasty guy said you should marry those young girls at 15 or 16.

http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/duck-dynasty-star-men-should-marry-teens

“Look, you wait ‘til they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that’s going to take place is your pocket,” he says. “You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16.” Robertson later adds: “You need to check with mom and dad about that, of course.”

[Norrrm]

15. Republicans called 22 y/o Monica a child.

Republicans called 22 y/o Monica a child.

Matt Gaetz called his 17 y//o border crossing girl a young woman.

Trump Spiritual Adviser Violated A "Young Lady" - she was 12,

Trump likes 13 y/o girls - a lot.