Serious question: Is Rep. Madison Cawthorn even capable of not being creepy for five minutes?
In a psychotic new campaign ad, the antigay congressman from North Carolina is calling on the “American Christian church” (shudder!) to “come out of the shadows” (spooky!), urging “strong, God-fearing patriots” (read: Christian extremists) to rise up against the “tyranny” of Democratic Party.
“If we bend the knee to the Democrats today, our country will be lost forever and our children will never know what freedom is,” the 25-year-old Nazi enthusiast says.
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Then he calls for other like-minded Christ followers to join him in the “spiritual battle” currently happening on Capitol Hill.
The ad also includes footage from a speech he gave last month at the North Carolina Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Salt & Light Conference,” where he described himself as a congressional guardian against “the Devil”, which is really just code for anyone who doesn’t subscribe to his warped ideology.
“I don’t feel an overwhelming sense of darkness as if the Devil has complete dominion of that area,” he said, “because I feel a spiritual battle going on on Capitol Hill.”
“Look back into the Old Testament. Look at David, look at Daniel, look at Esther. Look at all these people who influenced the governments of their day to uphold Christian principles.”
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But as many people have already pointed out, the figures Cawthorn names were all Jewish, making them an odd choice for promoting his Christian valor.
Of course, this is Madison Cawthorn we’re talking about. He’s the same guy who misquoted Thomas Jefferson for something John Adams said and who mistakenly claimed James Madison signed the Declaration of Independence.
This is why education is important, people.
Watch Cawthorn’s creepy AF campaign ad below. Or don’t.
Where are you, men and women of faith?
If we lose this country, our children will never know freedom.
Stand united as men and women of faith to fight for America! pic.twitter.com/FQNKo8vfRs
— Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) October 3, 2021
And now, the responses…
Is this you? pic.twitter.com/aYosd131Xi
— Rob (@robm_81) October 3, 2021
America’s first amendment is the freedom of speech…not just yours/those that agree with you.
In addition, there is a separation of church and state…so your faith belongs in your church, not in politics.
— 5G Enabled Maneka 🇺🇲 🥃💃🏾🔶️⚽️ (@machar131) October 4, 2021
— SmooveB (@SmooveB1969) October 3, 2021
You speak of the old testament. You do realize that isn’t really a Christian text, right? It was simply co-opted by Christians from the Hebrews. Either believe ALL of it or none of it, you don’t get the cherry pick
— MyThoughtsAreReal😷💉❤️🇺🇲 (@FloridaBBQ017) October 4, 2021
I mean pic.twitter.com/0VEHcPGvRD
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 4, 2021
You took an oath to the Constitution that proclaims a separation of church and state. I suggest you do some reading.
— BeTheLightBeTheBetterAngel (@ConcernedinPV) October 4, 2021
Your faith is not my faith…….. pic.twitter.com/EjzjJAPGN0
— 4 EverMokum (@FransHibma) October 3, 2021
Jesus has asked me to tell all evangelicals to stop. He says you guys are ruining his good name.
— Kentucky Sparky (@Kentucky_Sparky) October 3, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Haskell
I am not sure how he even can speak the way he does, when he has been caught in so many lies. He has lied from day 1. Does he realize that there are so many fact checkers out there that do not care for his political agenda and every single time he says something he is always backed right into a corner. He should just not speak. The fact that he is brining this really odd sense of religion into his political spectrum seems very weak and pandering to one side of the vote. Let’s hope he gets a strong challenger who can get his seat. We do not need this type of rhetoric in public office, we have too many bullshitters on both sides of the aisle.
Mack
Just like Trump who hasn’t found a lie he didn’t like. They think that no one will find what he said previously, but if they do then that say the video is altered. You can’t fix stupid and it’s very very strong on the “right side”.
CatholicXXX
Queerty picks and unflattering picture for everyone bigoted, but not for this guy..
Fit white guys get a free pass.
I don’t even recall this guy saying anything homophobic. Is he an ass? yes.
Heywood Jablowme
@CatholicXXX: Really? It’s not that flattering. He looks either sunburned or drunk.
Liquid Silver
I’m going with rather stoned.
Biblical sense. Lower spine, apparently.
cvdixon29
@CatholicXXX What does him being White have to do with it, or saying anything homophobic?
Cam
@CatholicXXX
I love how when you troll under this name, you think if you make a comment about “White Guys” it will disguise your trolling….like when you try to slip in your little part about never hearing this guy say anything homophobic.
Your troll game, no matter what screename you’re under, is sad and weak.
doodleboi
Is it ignorance, naivete, they just cause more people to leave the church and some to become Atheists.
roddy
This is NOT a JIHAD! GET RELIGION OUT OF POLITICS!!!!
xanadude
He looks as gay as the day is long! Another he who hath protest too much?
ericr_wilson
Exactly.!! I just shared the same opinion. He’s trying to comfort his guilty conscience…. He’ll cum out soon, and very soon….
bvick1636
He has to be gay or bi with a heavy leaning towards guys. Normal people don’t work so hard trying to throw people off “the track” unless they are afraid the public will suspect THEM of being the one that is gay. It is rumored his wife is merely a “beard”. You never see them together. All his stunts involve him trying to act super masculine to compensate for his being in the wheel-chair (which he CAN NOT HELP), and to dispel all the tittering about his being gay himself. The TRUTH ALWAYS comes out eventually and I believe it will in his case.
richybruce
Someone should roll him into oncoming traffic.
xnetminder
??? YES!!!
Invader7
Along with Gov. Greg Abbott. Another republithug NEO NAZI FASCIST… I nearly spewed my Mexican Coca-Cola ( the variety with the REAL old, school authentic Cola flavor ) all over the screen…
Matthewnow
Better he be pushed while playing limbo on a cruise deck.
Jim
That is not nice We should treat him with love.
How about getting together a bunch of guys to top him.
Pleasure him. Not kill him.
ericr_wilson
We all know that the boy is straight-up gay…. We’ve seen these reptilian hypocrites spew their homophobic bullshit — then get caught ‘financing’ rent boys (Translation: blackmail) and toe-tapping undercover cops while picking up toilet paper from the restroom stall floor (that one made me howl at the moon.!!!). I pay these hypocrites absolutely no mind, but they’re dangerous and damage lives.
Alex_S
Serious question: Is Queerty even capable of not writing about this as*hole every other week?
Liquid Silver
No. One, he’s a booga-booga scarecrow of the Republican party designed to keep you afraid and from actually thinking about anything.
Two, I think half the Queerty staff has their…staves…in hand at his photos.
There are actual issues out there–like the debt ceiling–that this place doesn’t breathe a word about. I don’t think they have much understanding of it.
missuniverse
I have excellent GAYDAR and Madison is SO GAY.
humble charlie
Though I admit he does look like Tab Hunter, a gay movie star from the 1950’s to early 60’s, I don’t think that means Madison is gay. But he denigrated someone who had saved his life by saying that person had left him to die in a fiery crash. If that person HAD done so, Cawthorn wouldn’t be around to spew his phoney christian garbage. I sympathize with his condition, but he is still, in my mind, a dangerous person, who will play on his condition to get any advantage. He’s a racist, sexist ghoul. Along with the rest of the phoney christians who wouldn’t know Christ (or whatever his name was) if he whipped the hypocrites out of their temples to themselves.
LMG
First, look at his signature. It is that of a Child. Even the “r” and “n” in his last name are run together as if he’s unsure how to spell his own name. The “thorn” part is blurred, probably because he subconsciously knows that he’s nothing more than a deliberate loudmouth “thorn” in everyone’s butt with nothing else to offer. He requires and demands the attention – not only physically, but also psychologically ruined by the unfortunate accident that left him wheelchair bound. Therefore he must compensate by always having his face and upper body in the limelight. If it wasn’t for his handicap he probably wouldn’t even be in Congress. Both give him the platform he so desperately needs. Unfortunately, he also has a diminished mental capacity which he must overcome by demonstrating his false erudition. If he wasn’t so dangerous one might actually feel sorry for this basket case of a would be human being.
Liquid Silver
He’s had a spinal injury, so that could have some impact. As to how much it impacts his hands, we just don’t know.
I’m a painter by hobby. My signature is a whirlwind of overstrokes and back-cuts and looks more like a drawing than a signature. It means nothing, signifies nothing, and it’s just meant to look pretty.
Cam
@Liquid Silver
Except we do know, it didn’t But keep on trying to defend him.
Mister P
Wait until he finds out that we are going to go door to door to take their guns and bibles.
Cato
You have to worry about anyone who can’t even spell their own name.
gregg2010
Let’s hear it for the Gay Agenda!
shaunpaul1234
Was madison like this before the accident or since!!
Is he angry about gays cause hes not able to have any sex or cause he cnt deal wth bng in th bisexual closet at the VERY LEAST, or at most, THE GAY CLOSET!!
Its time for him to pick out a wardrobe frm tht closet and come on ZOUT!!
Why else wld homos frustate him, SO MUCH!!
Donston
He does look like a stereotypical white “Insta-queer”. However, folks do need to stop assuming that every decent looking guy who’s overtly anti-gay/queer-phobic is “gay” and/or in the gender, sexual, romantic, affection, emotional investment, commitment spectrum. But if he’s closeted then he needs to stay there. No one has time for another guy (particularly politician) trying to be “proudly out” after years of supporting horrible shit and getting attention/money/support for doing so. And of course, it’ll be well after he holds no political weight, and he’ll barely even try to make amends for his years of being problematic/promoting hate. While almost every sociological argument that leans on religion is gonna contain a lot of faults and hypocrisies.
It would also be nice if this site could go a month without posting about this dude. He’s a hateful homophobe. We get it. At a certain point it really just starts to feel redundant and like there are people a part of the site who are obsessed with him.
BaltoSteve
Ok.. look… I’m what I love to call “A Recovering Catholic.” That means I grew up in a loosely Catholic household, but I got better. And while this dude is a complete tool, what stands out to me is that it is glaringly obvious he hasn’t a clue that Ester, David, and Daniel weren’t Christians. They all predate Christianity. I mean if you are going to lie and twist the truth… at least do it well, not this quarter assed effort.
Phillip
Madison, if YOUR faith is strong enough, YOU stand up and prove it. 😉
If you cannot, then YOUR faith must not be STRONG ENOUGH.
At least that’s the ‘black and white’ thinking you are proposing upon the MAGA’s to do.
Perhaps you should stop stirring the religious ‘pot of hatred’ and quit mixing religion with politics?
Heywood Jablowme
“The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith!’ And the Lord said, ‘If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would obey you.'” – Luke 17:5-6
“truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.” – Matthew 17:20
The Bible says if Cawthorn had enough faith, Jesus would cure him and he’d get right out of that wheelchair!
But maybe praying to TRUMP, the big fat Golden Calf, doesn’t have the same effect?
My2CentsWorth
That is a good point. If he was not restricted to a wheel chair he would be more capable of working for the [i.e., twisted] Christian cause AND getting up and walking would prove that he is right with God.
Cawthorn is primary for Cawthorn. He may not utter any negative comments about the stupid folks who support him – as a rumor of Trump doing – but he is more for Cawthorn than for them.
Just_thom
What ever happened to separation of church & state? A state cannot be run by religion effectively & I am a Christian.
mateo
Somebody needs to remind this TURD that “freedom of religion” also means “freedom FROM religion”. Nobody in a free country is required to belong to any religion, nor profess faith in anything. Laws are made by human beings and other human beings have the obligation to uphold and respect them. If Madison Cawthorn wants to live in a theocracy, then he can move to some Mideastern hell hole.
petej
has no constituent initiated impeachment against this guy? i would be so embarrassed/misrepresented/appalled.
GrizzleyMichael
Another closeted fag just jealous of the gay community having fun and he can’t so he is just pissed
Essie
The dummies in his district are as stupid and uneducated as he is so none of them know these people he mentions were Jewish. What they do love is his hellfire and brimstone rhetoric. They will vote for him forever and he will stay in office until someone erases his district. I don’t think there are enough dumbass voters in all of North Carolina to vote him into the Senate but, who knows.
My2CentsWorth
I strongly urge you to not make a bet on there not being enough dumb people in North Carolina to vote for him. You could lose.
Invader7
You mean the republithugs NeoNAZI FASCIST Ken doll !!!
Invader7
He’s a truck stop ” Lot Lizard “… He’s a twisted freaky SICKO !!! In other words a typical republithug !!!
mgconlan
David, Daniel and Esther were from the Old Testament and therefore couldn’t have been standing up for “Christian values” since neither Christ nor Christianity existed yet. Besides, given how many of these creatures turn out to be hypocrites, how soon before someone catches Madison Cawthorn getting (or giving) a blowjob in a restroom, probably from someone underage?
Mister P
The difference is that Mexican coke has sugar instead of fructose. The flavor is otherwise the same.
Max
in that one tweet image above, he’s got quite a signature above his name and title. all those curls say “express yourself” but keep it tidy. surprised no heart was used to dot the “i”.
Prax07
If he wasn’t in a wheelchair he’d be doing Onlyfans and starring in Corbin Fisher videos.
Fahd
As George W. Bush said at Trump’s inauguration, “That’s some weird shit.”
Man About Town
How can anyone who says an 80-year-old public health official is “a punk” who is “only interested in furthering his career” be taken seriously?
Peter
This pretty-boy know-nothing should be removed from Congress, because what he’s calling for is insane, and unconstitutional; he’s broken his oath. Like all the trump-sucking cowards, he offers no solutions; he just wants to rile up the crowds to do the dirty work he would never do. He’s depending on their ignorance, racism and misplaced hatred to rise up and commit violence in the name of Jesus – just as Jesus would do, of course. He’s a disgusting little turd who needs to lose his seat asap.
trojanboy
Needs medication.
Showrunner
Please Stop posting about this man! He isn’t queer or actively attacking queer rights. There are actual queer people in congress that are worth posting about.
Jim
Wait wait didn’t he use to do movies for BelAmi???
BluePlatinumRose
Leave him ALONE ! Emphasis on alone. First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Two fold, he is allowed to have his say about politics and religion. News flash, you are allowed to say “No thanks and you are wrong”, but make sure to substantiate your views. I accept the ratio range theory: to me he appears 60% gay, 20% curious undecided, and yes 20% straight. Leave him alone. It takes time, some many years or decades. He is young in the Church and Govt; trying to figure out God, the world and esp himself. We were ALL there once struggling. He is handsome with an impressive gym bod and muscles.
BoomerMyles
Cawthorn praises King David for his “Christian values” but King David coveted his general’s wife and purposely sent that general on a suicide mission so he could have the wife to himself.
My2CentsWorth
King David of the old testament being a Christian????
Cawthorn should read the Bible to get a sense of the sequence of the myths it contains.
G-Man
He wants to have sex with a guy so bad he can taste that’s why he’s lashing out.