Anti-Gay Hate Group Paid Missouri Senate Candidate
Matthew Chapman
July 5, 2018 4:00 am
Missouri Attorney General and Senate candidate Josh Hawley has something disqualifying in his past: he worked with a hate group. But stunningly, he’s not ashamed of it.
According to the Riverfront Times, e-mails obtained in a sunlight request reveal that while Hawley was a professor at the University of Missouri, he keynoted an event in Phoenix organized by the extremist organization Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), and that “for what appears to have amounted to an hour-long address, Hawley was paid $2,500, given a flight and extra money for expenses, and put up in the Ritz-Carlton.” Candidate disclosure forms show he and his wife have earned $8,700 from ADF in the last 5 years.
The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies ADF as a hate group. The organization supports re-criminalizing homosexuality in the United States, and they have defended forced sterilization of trans people.
Their extremist agenda spilled over into how Hawley and other faculty members could speak while working for ADF. According to the event’s “language guidelines,” faculty members were to refer to hate crimes as “so-called hate crimes” and sex education as “sexual indoctrination.”
Hawley has been particularly secretive about his time at the University of Missouri, taking the unusual step of hiring outside counsel to review his emails before complying with open records requests relating to that time.
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