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Christian Men's Conference Features Men Who Disparage Women

 

Speakers Josh Howerton, Mark Driscoll, and Graham Allen headline a Christian nationalist men’s conference set at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington. (TRR Graphic)

A Christian men's conference, aiming to gather 20,000 fathers and sons at The Gorge Amphitheater in central Washington state in June, has a lineup of speakers who have disparaged women and referred to them as their genitalia.

The Father’s Day weekend Freedom Con is organized by Stronger Man Nation, a Christian nationalist group founded by Josh McPherson, pastor of Grace City Church in nearby Wenatchee. This year’s speakers include Josh Howerton, who made “jokes” about sexually subservient women: Ryan Visconti, who said wives are toxic unless they’re weaker than men, and Graham Allen, who spoke of his mother as a “vagina.”

Perhaps the most controversial is Mark Driscoll, who under the pseudonym William Wallace II, once wrote that God created women to be “penis homes.”

Driscoll was celebrated as an "evangelical bad boy" whose brash style was a model for reaching a postmodern generation until mounting accusations of misused funds and spiritual abuse threw his church into crisis. He abruptly resigned from Mars Hill Church in Seattle in 2014.

He has since has relaunched and rebranded in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he’s reportedly demanded unquestioned loyalty from staff and hired firms to surveille ousted members.

Promotional graphic for Stronger Man Nation’s “Freedom Con,” featuring a lineup of speakers tied to a men’s conference focused on masculinity, faith, and cultural influence. (Photo courtesy of Facebook)

According to McPherson, the Freedom Con conference is “summoning” Christian men who will fight for freedom.

“It is our land. It is our heritage,” McPherson said in an an announcement video. “We will rise together. We will stand together. We will resist together. We will not watch Washington state plunge into the abyss. We will liberate Washington state. We will dedicate Washington state back to Jesus Christ.”

One of the nations' bluest states, Washington is split between its conservative half in central and eastern counties and its far more populous western half across the Cascade mountains. It was the only state where the GOP did not gain ground during the 2024 presidential election.

A second video, released last week, advertised the Stronger Man Nation Freedom Con with a montage of manly men doing manly things. Footage of actor John Wayne firing a lever-action rifle and baseball great Babe Ruth slugging a ball out of the park transitions into shots of contemporary podcasters, preachers and politicians.

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