Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor seeking to unseat Sen Roger Marshall, called on worshippers to reduce their carbon footprints
FIRST ON FOX: 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.
Senior pastor Adam Hamilton spoke during “Heritage” services at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, in Wesley Covenant Chapel at the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. (Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“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.