A Christian Nationalist Evangelical church is coming to Washington, D.C., with the goal of convincing the Trump administration to “go after sodomy.”

Christ Church DC, a branch of Idaho’s Christ Church Moscow, will open in July only blocks from the U.S. Capitol. The church’s associate pastor, Joe Rigney, discussed during a recent podcast appearance how its mission is to embed a stronger anti-LGBTQ+ agenda into national politics.

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“We’re all grateful for a bunch of the stuff that the Trump administration has done and the balls that they’ve carried down the field,” Rigney said, “and then there’s a bunch that they’ve just absolutely fumbled and are totally blowing.”

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Rigney praised the White House for dismantling trans rights but said it wasn’t enough. “All the sodomites are still there,” he said, adding he is looking for politicians to commit to going after the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision legalizing marriage equality. He said he wanted to “calibrate the Christians in D.C. by the word of God and not by whatever the present administration can tolerate.”

“We’re gonna come for feminism,” he added. “We’re going to go after sodomy. Those are the sins in that town. Those are sins that are acceptable among both parties in that town. And we want to plant that flag and say the Bible has something to say about this.” 

The Church is a project of pastor Doug Wilson, who runs the flagship location in Moscow, Idaho. Wilson wrote in a blog post about the D.C. location, “We believe that there will be many strategic opportunities with numerous evangelicals who will be present both in and around the Trump administration.”

Wilson’s presence in D.C. could have an outsized influence, considering the prevalence of Christian nationalism and evangelicals in the Trump administration. Wilson also has connections to Vice President JD Vance as well as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, according to Mother Jones.

The publication also reported that Wilson has defended slavery, spoken out against women’s right to vote, and said it’s “an erotic necessity” to have women be submissive to men.

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