“Just like those stern Puritans, our Augustinian forebears gave us limited government and liberty of conscience and popular sovereignty,” Hawley claimed. “Because of our Christian and biblical heritage, we protect the liberty of all to worship according to conscience. Because of our Christian tradition, we welcome people of all races and ethnic backgrounds to a nation constituted by common loves.”
“The truth is,” Hawley stated, “Christian nationalism is not a threat to American democracy. Christian nationalism founded American democracy.”
Criticizing the GOP for what he sees as its lack of commitment to life in the womb and to marriage, Hawley said that it is the “Christian tradition of nationalism that unites this country. Work, family, God, these are the great loves that define America. And these are the ideals the Republican Party must now defend.”
Hawley insisted that the Republican Party must “start prioritizing the working man” and that the party’s failure to do so is a result of not putting the “working man’s family first.”
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“The party of a Christian nation has to defend the family,” Hawley said. “The truest measure of American strength is the flourishing of American home and family.”
Near the closing of his address, Hawley said he believes the “left” has a goal of “replacing one religion with another.” The “left wants religion,” Hawley said, but “they want the religion of the Pride flag. We want the religion of the Bible.”
“So I have a suggestion, a small suggestion,” he added. “Why don’t we take down the trans flag from all of the federal buildings over which it’s flying around the world and instead inscribe on every building owned or operated by the federal government our national motto: ‘In God we trust.'”
“Let us not be controlled by fear,” Hawley said. “Let us not return to the harsh ethnic nationalism of the ancient world or to the authoritarian ideology of blood and soil—that’s not what the Christian legacy has left us.”
“In this land,” he said, “we defend the liberty of all in this nation. We practice self-government of the people.”
“Let us return instead to what joins us in common communion: the dignity of labor, the sanctity of the home, the love of family, and of God,” Hawley said. “That’s our civilization. That’s America.”
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