Josh Hawley Plans, Aborts Fundraiser With Preacher Who Compared Gays to Nazis

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Josh Hawley, Missouri's buffest U.S. Senate candidate and a guy who doesn't know what a truck is, was scheduled to appear in Springfield today for a "Mid-Term Election Update for Evangelicals" featuring a legitimately crazy-pants pastor whose ideas range from putting Bibles in schools to opining about the similarities between homosexuality and Nazis. And no, we're not talking about Mike Pence. (That was yesterday.)

The event has since been cancelled, but the fact that Hawley was even considering making a public appearance with the pastor, David Barton, bears a moment of emphasis.

Barton operates WallBuilders, a Texas-based organization that, according to its website, is "dedicated to presenting America’s forgotten history and heroes," which is a nice way of describing the group's goal of making America Great Again for Christians. Barton has argued that the separation of church and state is "a myth" and spends his time promoting a sort of Christian nationalism that would probably make George Washington throw his fake teeth in rage.

Of course, Barton has ideas about LGBTQ folks. In the past, notes the Kansas City Star, the politically active pastor advanced the baseless claim that mortality and suicide rates prove homosexuality is a health crisis that should be regulated by the government. (Why the good pastor doesn't think the government should instead work to increase quality of life for gay people is a question worth asking.)

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1. Josh H. has canceled another planned meeting w/ another pastor besides Barton too. I can't ...

recall that guy's name, but Hawley seems to be hanging around w/ these nuts too much. It doesn't bode well w/ separation of church and state that the US constitution and the bill of rights mandate. I get nervous w/ Hawley...and got a bad feeling about this guy not being on the up and up.

Hawley is someone to be beware of. A religious nut disguised in sheep's clothing, who will be quick to gut Roe vs. Wade and other hard earned rulings made by the courts over a long period of time. I don't have any evidence of course of this, but in just plain reading into the guy and what's he said so far...I just get nervous w/ him period.

Also, one person in MO has funded a huge amount of Hawley's political contributions...A guy associated w/ the TAMCO company in Joplin MO, and is suspected of having done so (the contributions) so Hawley as MO AG could help him out in an upcoming lawsuit. Here's a little information on this TAMCO guy...Humpreys, to the tune of $6.5 million dollars, yes, this is right, one guy, $6.5 million dollars.

Beware also of Hawley hyping up the Supreme Court appointees recently, by stating that he'll be make sure that the next appointee(s) to the Supreme Court are 'conservative' ... whatever this word means.