FALSE PROPHET
Josh Hawley
U.S. Senator, Missouri
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) became the junior senator from Missouri in 2019. Following the 2020 presidential election, Hawley was the first U.S. Senator to announce an effort to overturn the will of the voters by opposing Congressional certification of the Electoral College results based on false allegations of voter fraud. He was infamously photographed raising a fist in solidarity with insurrectionists outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Prior to his initial run for office, Hawley worked for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a religious-right law firm where he participated in developing the legal strategy for the Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case against the Affordable Care Act's contraception-coverage mandate. Since taking federal office, Hawley has consistently espoused Christian nationalist viewpoints.
Hawley’s Christian Nationalist Rhetoric
Said at the National Conservatism conference in September 2022: “Without the Bible, there would be no America.”
Stated in a 2017 speech to the American Renewal Project: “That is our charge. To take the lordship of Christ, that message, into the public realm, and to seek the obedience of the nations. Of our nation!”
Believes that the sexual revolution of the 1960s “ends in the slavery and exploitation of young women. It will destroy our families.”
Has appeared on Christian nationalist movement leader and fellow False Prophet Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council’s show ‘Washington Watch’
Introduced an anti-federalist, anti-migrant bill in the Senate called the Empowering States to Deport Immigrants Act, which would grant states the power to enforce federal immigration laws and to prosecute anyone undocumented living in their state.
Hawley’s Christian Nationalist Policy Positions
Supported Trump’s family separation policy and supports building a wall along the border with Mexico
Called Roe v. Wade “one of the most unjust decisions” in U.S. judicial history
Believes that Obergefell v. Hodges – the Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage – was wrongly decided
Voted to acquit Donald Trump during both his first and second impeachment trials
Used QAnon-style framing to attack Ketanji Jackson Brown during her confirmation hearings, smearing her as soft on child predators
Was the lone senator to vote against the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, designed to crack down on anti-Asian violence triggered by the pandemic
Has supported similar stolen-election conspiracy theories and lies as spread by fellow False Prophets and Christian-nationalist movement leaders Rev. Franklin Graham, General Michael Flynn, Bishop Joseph Strickland, strategist Steve Bannon, and Pastor Tony Perkins.
As of September 2022, holds a 96% score from fellow False Prophet Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council (designated an anti-LGBTQ “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center) for the current session of Congress.