Attacking the Democrat’s religion isn’t working in Kansas

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(RNS) — Republican politicians from Vice President JD Vance on down have been attacking the religious views of Adam Hamilton, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, who pastors a huge United Methodist church in suburban Kansas City. While these attacks don’t violate the constitutional ban on religious tests for office, they’re not very smart.

Here’s a sampling of what’s out there:

Vance: “Democrat pastor Adam Hamilton thinks it’s a sin to be white and a sin to raise cattle and eat meat, but he’s OK with supporting groups that spit on God-fearing Americans and mock everything that we hold dear. Ladies and gentlemen that is not Christianity, that is left-wing radicalism dressed in the skin suit of our religion. Let’s send it packing in November.”

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz: “ Why do Democrats keep nominating ‘preachers’ who reject the central tenets of Christianity? This heretical ‘sermon’ directly contradicts the Bible: ‘Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”’John 14:6.”

Hamilton’s opponent, Kansas Sen. Roger…