Kansas Democrat Adam Hamilton Told Congregation to Repent for Eating Beef in 2020 Sermon Adam Hamilton, the Democratic Senate nominee in Kansas, told his congregation in a 2020 sermon that cattle production contributes to climate change and called for repentance over eating beef and raising cattle. Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee running to unseat Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., once told his congregation to repent for eating beef and raising cattle. Hamilton, who for years led the largest United Methodist church in the nation, made the remarks in a January 2020 sermon titled What would Jesus say about climate change? In Kansas, cows are king, but a Democrat trying to seize power once told his congregation to repent for eating beef and raising cattle. Hamilton led the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, for years. A photo shows him speaking during Heritage services at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, in Wesley Covenant Chapel at the church.That is what repentance means - I saw things differently, it changed my heart, and it changed my behavior, Hamilton said during the sermon. He continued, So what I am calling you to today, and I am calling myself to it, because I have been wasteful, I have 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.I am 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 am going to do something different from this time forward, Hamilton said.Hamilton's sermon was part scripture, part PowerPoint presentation on how greenhouse gases occur and their impact on the environment. During his 44-minute talk, he suggested that one of Kansas' staple economic drivers, beef, was a major contributor to the problem.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. And so, in all of these ways, we are creating or adding to the amount of greenhouse gases in our world.Hamilton also said, Now, you got to do everything you can to reduce your own usage of fossil fuels, but maybe changing your diet so that the things that you eat are requiring less production that creates methane and carbon dioxide and everything else.Kansas is the nation's third-largest beef producer. There are more heads of cattle in the state, just over 5.8 million, than people, with the state's population sitting at roughly 2.9 million. Cattle farming and ranching produce tens of billions of dollars and employ tens of thousands of Kansans.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. Trump's Iran war are giving voters anxiety, and expanding the map of battleground states that Republicans need to defend to maintain their majority in the Senate.Marshall told Fox News Digital in a statement, In a state with more cattle than people, Hamilton saying that Kansans need repent for eating too much beef and flip flopping on the Farm Bill proves he'd be just like every other liberal Democrat in the Senate.Hamilton's campaign countered to Fox News Digital that Marshall has repeatedly introduced legislation to reduce emissions from cattle and claimed everyone's concerned about the methane production in the cattle industry. Tyson Brody, a spokesperson for Hamilton, said, Marshall even bragged how the decline of the herd eliminated half of the methane gas produced from cattle already.Brody added, As Adam said at the debate, Roger should repent for failing to stand up for Kansas cattle producers on tariffs, foreign imports, and skyrocketing diesel prices, and now he should repent for attacking Adam for something Roger Marshall said himself in the Senate. Kansas producers don't need lectures from someone who voted to put warning labels on hot dogs and bacon.Kansas Livestock Association Chief Executive Officer Matt Teagarden told Fox News Digital in a statement, It is disappointing that a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Kansas, one of the nation's top beef-producing states, would make a statement like this to his parishioners about beef's impact on the climate.Beef is an important, nutritious part of the American diet, and cattle play a significant role in maintaining grassland health and conservation, while accounting for only 2% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, Teagarden said.