Josh Hawley

People don't have any confidence in Jefferson City. There's incredible anger in the political establishment, and one of the reasons is special interests dominate the Capitol in our state.

People have completely lost confidence in our public officials in Jefferson City.

It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act extends religious liberty to corporations without regard to their for-profit and non-profit status.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.

The Obama administration contends that starting a for-profit business means leaving religious liberty behind. The administration has effectively told the Supreme Court that for-profit companies have no right to act on moral convictions the government opposes. They are about profits. That position is deeply mistaken.

We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people.

The Constitution treats religious belief as uniquely special, uniquely central to the dignity of the human person, and, for that reason, beyond the power of the state to control.

We need an attorney general that's going to be an advocate for the state of Missouri and is willing to intervene in the regulatory process and go to court to protect Missourians from over-regulation.

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking.

Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.