Kansas Senate hopeful’s old sermon comes back to haunt him — and cattle country may not love it

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Democratic Senate nominee Adam Hamilton once urged his megachurch congregation to “repent” over environmental stewardship and reduce its carbon footprint.
In the same 2020 sermon, Hamilton suggested driving less and changing diets, specifically pointing to cattle as producing more greenhouse gases than some other foods.
Those remarks are now resurfacing in Kansas — one of America’s biggest cattle states — as Hamilton tries to unseat Republican Sen. Roger Marshall.

Adam Hamilton wants to become the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Kansas in nearly a century.

An old sermon about climate change, driving and beef has now followed him onto the campaign trail.

Hamilton, the longtime pastor of the Church of the Resurrection and Democratic nominee challenging Sen. Roger Marshall, delivered a 44-minute sermon in January 2020 titled “What Would Jesus Say About Climate Change?”

And he had a request for the congregation.

Repent.

“That’s what repentance means: I started to see things differently, it changed my heart and then it changed my behavior,” Hamilton said.

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Democrat Adam Hamilton tells Kansans to repent for eating beef and not addressing climate change during a sermon.

Kansas is America’s third-largest producer of beef.

Hamilton’s radical agenda would hurt thousands of Kansas farmers. pic.twitter.com/FZZhlora4B

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Hamilton acknowledged his own environmental habits and invited congregants to reconsider theirs.

“I invite you to repent and to say, ‘I recognize this has consequences, even though it seems like a small thing, it affects the world and future generations. I feel bad about that and I’m going to do things differently going forward.’”

What kinds of things?

Hamilton’s sermon included plenty of suggestions. He talked about reducing fossil-fuel use, driving, and changing what people eat. And that’s where things get particularly interesting for a man now running for Senate in Kansas.

“Some of the things that we grow, because we like to eat them, like cattle, end up producing more carbon dioxide than other crops that we could grow, other forms of food that we could have,” Hamilton said.

Later, he suggested “changing your diet so that the things that you eat are requiring less production that creates methane and carbon dioxide and everything else.”

Kansas happens to have a few cows. About 5.8 million of them, according to figures cited by Fox News — roughly twice the state’s human population. Kansas is also the nation’s third-largest beef producer.

President Trump recently accused Hamilton of saying Kansas needs to “repent for eating beef,” while Marshall has now seized on the sermon as well.

Hamilton’s campaign is fighting back by pointing to Marshall’s own statements about methane emissions from cattle. Campaign spokesman Tyson Brody accused Marshall of hypocrisy, noting that the Republican senator has discussed legislation aimed at reducing cattle emissions.

Hamilton himself turned the language back on Marshall during a recent debate.

“I think the senator needs to repent for not standing up for the beef industry,” he said.

That’s one way to handle it.

But six years after delivering a sermon about carbon footprints, Hamilton is now running statewide in a place where there are substantially more cows than voters. And apparently the sermons have become opposition research.