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Kansas Senate candidate Adam Hamilton admits ‘mistakes were made’ in church sexual abuse scandal

Hamilton, a Methodist pastor who runs Kansas' largest church, is facing late-campaign attacks from incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall over now-convicted sex offender Scott Moore, who was accused of molesting teenage boys at church retreats in 2005 and 2006.

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Trump Says Megachurch Pastor Running for Senate ‘Openly Mocks Jesus’President Donald Trump claimed that Adam Hamilton, a pastor and Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, “openly mocks Jesus,” and attacked him for supporting transgender ideology. Trump did not mention a specific statement in which Hamilton had mocked Jesus, though he made the accusation between two criticisms of Hamilton over transgender ideology.…
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