Woke megachurch pastor trying to unseat Kansas GOP senator called on congregation to repent for driving, eating beef
In Kansas, cows are king, but a Democrat trying to seize power once told his congregation to repent for eating beef and raising cattle.Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee running to unseat Sen.Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in the Sunflower State, for years led the largest United Methodist church in the nation.
He would give sermons that Marshall charged were “woke” and counter to Kansans’ values.One such sermon, reviewed by Fox News Digital, saw Hamilton call on his congregation to repent over their carbon footprints.“That’s what repentance means — I saw things differently, it changed my heart, and it changed my behavior,” Hamilton said during a January 2020 sermon called, “What would Jesus say about climate change?”“So what I’m calling you to today, and I’m calling myself to it, because I’ve been wasteful, I’ve done things that wasn’t, you know, I didn’t think about it, how it wasn’t really good stewardship of the earth around me,” he continued.“I’m calling us to repentance to say, ‘I realize that this has impact, even if it seems small, it has an impact on the world and future generations.
And I feel badly about that, and I’m going to do something different from this time forward.’”Despite Kansas’ 94-year history of being a ruby-red bastion for the GOP in the Senate, the race between Hamilton and Marshall has unexpectedly tightened in recent months as Republicans across the country face a sobering political environment.Kansas slipped from “Likely R” in Fox News’ Power Rankings to “Lean R,” and Cook Political Report echoed the same shift, too.“In a state with more cattle than people, Hamilton saying that Kansans need to repent for eating too much beef and flip-flopping on the Farm Bill proves he’d be just like every other liberal Democrat in the Senate,” Marshall told Fox News Digital in a statement.High fuel prices, particularly diesel in an agriculture-centric state like Kansas, spurred by President ...