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The Kansas City Star Editorial Board

Editorial: Josh Hawley is disturbingly wrong: The US Constitution is not based on the Bible

Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri gave a speech Monday explaining what he views as the biblical foundations of American government.

“Without the Bible, there is no modernity,” Hawley told the National Conservatism Conference. “Without the Bible, there is no America.”

You can guess what came next: a confusing stew of inaccurate history, dubious theology and extreme hypocrisy that should worry every Missourian who believes in the separation of church and state.

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