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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 home...