{"id":968664,"date":"2021-11-04T17:14:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T21:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=968664"},"modified":"2021-11-04T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T21:14:48","slug":"dem-candidates-husband-locks-down-social-media-over-anti-christian-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-candidates-husband-locks-down-social-media-over-anti-christian-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Candidate\u2019s Husband Locks Down Social Media Over Anti-Christian Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-candidates-husband-locks-down-social-media-over-anti-christian-posts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=968664&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.119047619048\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Iowa candidate Liz Mathis&#8217;s husband shared posts comparing &#8216;Republican Christianity&#8217; to &#8216;extremist Islam&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mark-800x1033-1_736x514-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mark-800x1033-1_736x514.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mark-800x1033-1_736x514-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mark-800x1033-1_736x514-703x491.jpeg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tMark Mathis \t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/matthew-foldi\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Foldi\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Matthew Foldi<\/a> \u2022 November 4, 2021 5:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"113.15480744708\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The husband of an Iowa Democrat running for Congress as a moderate locked down his Facebook account after the <em>Washington<\/em> <em>Free Beacon<\/em> asked about his posts comparing American Christians to Islamic terrorists, predicting Republicans would put people in gas chambers, and expressing hope that former president Donald Trump would get the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mark Mathis, the husband of Iowa Democratic congressional candidate Liz Mathis, has a lengthy digital footprint across his now-private Facebook page, where he regularly disparages <span class=\"il\">Christians<\/span> and posts left-wing content from pages such as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USdems\">U.S. Democratic Socialists<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheOther98\">The Other 98%<\/a>,&#8221; which pledges to fight to &#8220;tax the rich&#8221; and win &#8220;the class war.&#8221; Liz Mathis is running to unseat Republican congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who narrowly flipped Iowa&#8217;s First Congressional District last cycle.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mark Mathis&#8217;s most politically charged posts include criticism of Christians. He shared a photo that said &#8220;Republican Christianity&#8221; is &#8220;starting to look a lot like extremist Islam,&#8221; a screenshot of a Tweet that said conservative Christians don&#8217;t know the difference between homosexuals and homo sapiens, and an article that said Christians who oppose illegal immigrants getting citizenship are &#8220;asshole[s].&#8221; In December 2017, he shared a post that depicts &#8220;Republican Jesus&#8221; telling a rape survivor, &#8220;I know he raped you, Sally. But what\u2019s really important is the Senate seat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Liz Mathis, a local Iowa journalist who is now a state senator, launched her campaign by appealing to voters tired of &#8220;partisanship and conflict they\u2019re seeing in Washington.&#8221; Control of Iowa&#8217;s First Congressional District has flipped back and forth between Democrats and Republicans regularly in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1536030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.29.10-PM.png\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.29.10-PM.png 538w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.29.10-PM-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.29.10-PM-377x491.png 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1536027 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.30.36-PM-257x300-1.png\" alt width=\"400\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.30.36-PM-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.30.36-PM-736x858.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.30.36-PM-421x491.png 421w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.30.36-PM.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1536084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.31.47-PM-278x300-1.png\" alt width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.31.47-PM-278x300.png 278w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.31.47-PM-736x795.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.31.47-PM-454x491.png 454w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.31.47-PM.png 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Mathis campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Mark Mathis did not respond for comment on how his posts could affect the trajectory of the race. His Facebook posts were made private shortly after the inquiries.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In addition to his many posts disparaging <span class=\"il\">Christianity<\/span>, Mark Mathis also claimed that the Republican Party supports pedophiles and suggested that Trump is a KKK member. He also said people opposed to caravans of migrants can\u2019t celebrate Thanksgiving, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OneMinuteMarket\/status\/1258896033624530950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/OneMinuteMarket\/status\/1258896033624530950&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636124472276000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1JnwpQYGVquRaxQ62vNq3w\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\">hoped<\/a> that Trump would not wear a mask, and compared the former president to Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1536054 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.38.33-PM-252x300-1.png\" alt width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.38.33-PM-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.38.33-PM-412x491.png 412w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.38.33-PM.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1536057 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.01-PM-225x300-1.png\" alt width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.01-PM-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.01-PM-368x491.png 368w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.01-PM-150x200.png 150w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.01-PM.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1536063 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.46-PM-253x300-1.png\" alt width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.46-PM-253x300.png 253w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.46-PM-768x910.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.46-PM-736x872.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.46-PM-414x491.png 414w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-12.39.46-PM.png 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mark Mathis may play a significant role in the campaign; Liz Mathis\u2019s campaign website prominently <a href=\"https:\/\/lizmathis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/lizmathis.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636124472275000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Yxf2hY4ew1qzvOjpbP9wV\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\">features<\/a> a photo of the two of them, and the couple remained business partners even after Liz Mathis was elected to office. The family business, AMPERAGE Marketing &amp; Fundraising, appears to be led by the pair.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Liz Mathis listed herself as a &#8220;family owner&#8221; of AMPERAGE on her LinkedIn as recently as July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/iowa-dem-used-position-tax-breaks-family-business\">according to<\/a> Fox News, and posts from the company\u2019s social media come from both Mark and Liz Mathis. &#8220;A message from Mark and Liz Mathis: Stay Home. Stay Safe. Keep Calm,&#8221; the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmperageMarketing\/photos\/2565852140297358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmperageMarketing\/photos\/2565852140297358&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636124472275000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1pGm649jTnxVzxw9tZen8X\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\">wrote<\/a> last April.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As state legislator, Liz Mathis has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/iowa-dem-used-position-tax-breaks-family-business\">criticized for directing money<\/a> to the firm&#8217;s clients. In 2016, she convinced several of her fellow state legislators to flip their votes and support a bill that provided up to $2.5 million in sales tax rebates for an Iowa-based nonprofit that paid the marketing firm tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mark Mathis&#8217;s anti-<span class=\"il\">Christian<\/span> rhetoric could be a liability for his wife\u2019s campaign in Iowa, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/religious-landscape-study\/state\/iowa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/religious-landscape-study\/state\/iowa\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636124472275000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0OWKYqPHsK_9m73nNHbKvz\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\">almost 10 percent more <span class=\"il\">Christian<\/span><\/a> than America as a whole.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The revelation of Mark Mathis\u2019s disdain for <span class=\"il\">Christian<\/span> voters comes as another Iowa Democrat is under fire for attacking <span class=\"il\">Christians<\/span>. Rep. Cindy Axne (D., Iowa) recently mocked <span class=\"il\">Christians<\/span> for holding crosses, echoing Obama\u2019s famous lament about Americans who cling to their guns and religion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The <span class=\"il\">Christian<\/span> Right is, you know, everything under the guise while they hold the cross, you know, for God or whatever,&#8221; Axne said. &#8220;And they use it like a weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Iowa candidate Liz Mathis&#8217;s husband shared posts comparing &#8216;Republican Christianity&#8217; to &#8216;extremist Islam&#8217;  Mark Mathis  Matthew Foldi \u2022 November 4, 2021 5:10 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}