Pastor Joel Webbon, a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist north of Austin, thinks the reason you’re single is because you’re too fat.
Webbon is a senior pastor at Georgetown’s Covenant Bible Church and the founder of Righteous Response Ministries, which advocates for theonomy, or a return to Biblical law.
The pastor has said plenty of things that raise eyebrows, but he went viral with a Wednesday episode of his ministry’s “The Live Stream” show. Offering advice to women who “want to get married but feel like they’re being passed over,” Webbon suggested they “lose 20 to 30 pounds.”
Webbon made the comments as part of a larger point that the “three most valuable assets a woman brings into a marriage” are “beauty, fertility and submission.”
As mentioned, Webbon’s no stranger to courting controversy. The petulant pastor previously suggested executing women to stop “false” rape accusations.
“#MeToo would end real fast. False accusing, playing the victim when you’re actually not? You know how to end that real fast?” Webbon said in 2024. “All you have to do is publicly execute a few women who have lied.”
Those comments also went viral and earned Webbon widespread condemnation. Webbon, seemingly worshipping at the altar of the Almight Algorithm, went viral again following Charlie Kirk’s assassination by calling for the televised public execution of alleged assassin Tyler Robinson.
In a conversation with the Houston Chronicle last week, Webbon doubled down on the latest controversy, reemphasizing his fatphobic remarks and throwing in some ageism as well for good measure.
“Christians in the West have a bad habit of over-spiritualizing and saying, ‘Well, if the woman is godly, then that’s all that should matter,'” Webbon told the Chron. “But the reality is that a godly woman who is 45 is going to be far less likely to marry and certainly, just biologically speaking, to bear children, than a godly woman who’s 25.”
“The Bible teaches women that they should be modest, but it doesn’t teach that they should be frumpy,” Webbon added.
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