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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe digital landscape has erupted into a firestorm of controversy following a viral video on X (formerly Twitter). Joel Webbon, a Texas pastor leading Right Response Ministries, and co-host Wesley Todd are facing intense backlash over remarks targeting women\u2019s roles in society and the church. The clip, highlighted by Right Wing Watch, captures the duo arguing that female leadership is an “offense to God.”In the video, Todd claimed that in the word of god and in the nature that he made, god said \u201cwomen need to shut up.\u201d \u201cThey need to be quiet, they don\u2019t get to call shots, they don\u2019t get to rule because they do stupid things,\u201d said Todd. Webbon agreed with his co-host, claiming that it might sound harsh, mean and not Christian, but the statement is actually \u201cso biblical and pleasing to god.\u201d \u201cYour daughter needs to shut up in your home when she is talking to daddy? No, that\u2019s not what we are talking,\u201d he said, while specifically mentioning the arenas where women should not speak up. In the public square, in ruling civil positions of government, in the church, in the positions of authority, and when it comes to making decisions in the household, with men as the \u201cfederal head\u201d of the family, Webbon said, \u201cAbsolutely, Wes is right, women, shut up!\u201d He also called women speaking out \u201cliterally an offence to god!\u201dNumerous netizens took to calling out Todd and Webbon for their remarks online. \u201cBut I thought the right-wing men supported and loved women? Hmm- seems all they want is CONTROL. TOTAL CONTROL.\u201d one user wrote. \u201cThey seem to forget that God appointed Queen Esther to lead an army. Time to study up.\u201d said another.\u201cWhen Joel Webbon and his bros get tired of dehumanizing Black people, they switch to dehumanizing women,\u201d claimed another.The clip was from a recent episode of their podcast titled \u2018Homosexuals, Jezebels & Why England is becoming Catholic\u2019 where they criticised the appointment of Dame Sarah Mullally as the Archbishop of Canterbury, calling it against the light of \u201cscripture and nature.\u201dTodd and Webbon cited the examples of Mullally who is \u201cpro-abortion\u201d and an \u201cIndian\u201d Anglican priestess who recommended using sex toys for joy to base their claims that women should keep quiet. Webbon also added that for a woman to find a good man, she should be “quiet, peacable, and stop competing with men.”In another video aired on their YouTube channel NXR Studios, the duo claimed that female pastors were not allowed in the church since it was a \u201cword of god,\u201d they followed it because they were conservatives and women were \u201cincapable\u201d of doing it well. Webbon even stated that he would change the voting system to a more \u201crepresentative\u201d one where the males- brothers, fathers, husbands voted for the larger family. Some videos have shocking titles like \u2018A godly woman wears what her husband wants\u2019 and the \u2018Era of girl boss is over.\u2019However, this is not an isolated incident for the duo. Previously, in February 2025, Todd entered hot waters for claiming pregnant women should not be allowed to serve in office, calling it \u201cstupid.\u201d Whereas Webbon, has made multiple remarks similar to this before in their videos.<\/div>\n