MAGA Pastor Criticised After Claiming People Reside in an 'Insane Asylum' if They Think Women Can Vote

Christian nationalist pastor Brian Sauvé has drawn criticism after saying on The King's Hall podcast that people are living in an 'insane asylum' if they regard women voting, working or living independently as normal.

Sauvé made the remarks with fellow pastor Eric Conn, who backed an earlier social media post from Sauvé calling for the 19th Amendment to be overturned.

Sauvé argued that modern freedoms for women had been wrongly accepted as ordinary, including political participation and living without a father or husband.

His comments expanded on his opposition to women's suffrage and his belief that women's social media use should be overseen by a man.

Brian Sauvé Targets Women's Voting Rights

During the discussion, Sauvé said society had developed what he described as a 'normalcy bias' around women's independence.

'We consider normal women having political rule. We consider normal women living unattached from a male, like a father, then a husband, for lengthy periods of time,' he said.

He also claimed that what he called 'modern feminist outworkings' had made women 'anxious, psychotic, depressed, miserable, and genocidally evil'.

Conn, meanwhile, agreed with a social media post in which Sauvé advocated overturning the 19th Amendment, the constitutional change that granted women the right to vote.

Sauvé also said society treated it as normal for women to have 'unsupervised access to one another all the time', placing that claim alongside his objections to political participation and independent living.

Sauvé Says Women's Social Media Should Be Controlled

Sauvé described how he manages his wife's social media accounts, arguing that women should either stay off such platforms or use them within what he called a 'walled garden situation'.

'Women either shouldn't be on social media or any social media they have should be kind of a walled garden situation where some competent man is curating and blocking and directing and taking a look at what's going on,' he said.

He added that he had access to his wife's accounts and had blocked 'thousands of accounts', saying she had 'very little idea of what is going on in the real social media' because he had created a feed dominated by 'cute goat videos'.

Sauvé rejected the idea that this made him a tyrant. 'People are going to hear me talking about, as my wife's head, monitoring her social media, and they're going to be like, "Brian is such a tyrant,"' he said.

He then returned to the core of the criticism. 'You're living in an insane asylum, and you think it's the normal world,' Sauvé said.

Remarks Follow Earlier Women's Suffrage Debate

The episode followed an earlier controversy involving Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who amplified a video about a Christian nationalist church after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned women about what could follow politically.

The nearly seven-minute CNN investigation focused on Doug Wilson, co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.

It included a pastor calling for the repeal of women's constitutional right to vote, another suggesting voting should be conducted by households, and a female congregant saying she deferred to her husband.