In 2010, a businessman with no political background, Shadrack McGill, was “politically convicted” by his God to run for Alabama Senate and was elected into office. Shadrack is currently running against four other candidates, including incumbent Sen. Richard Shelby, in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
After submitting a letter to his local newspaper, Jackson County’s The Daily Sentinel, Shadrack said he was asked to run for a seat in the Alabama Senate.
Shadrack defeated seven-term Democratic incumbent Lowell Barron.
While working a typical job and raising his six kids with the help of his wife, Heather McGill, God came to him and pointed out changes that needed to be made in Alabama and the U.S., according to Shadrack.
“The Lord sat me down and showed me that the church had backed out of the government, and we’ve allowed this nation to become what it has become,” Shadrack said. “I don’t want my children to look at me one day and ask me why I didn’t do anything.”
Shadrack served one term and returned home as he promised he would during his campaign.
Good men of integrity leave their homes to serve their constituents, and after multiple terms, they become soft on issues and fall into corruption, according to Shadrack.
It is difficult to find willing and well-rounded men to serve in office in today’s secular society, Shadrack said.
“There is a need for men of integrity in office,” Shadrack said. “All of a sudden, in my third and fourth year in Montgomery, the guys that I went in with, the guys that went in with backbones and my same mindset, started to soften up.”
The biggest problem in government today is the continued effort to kick God out of the country, on all levels, but specifically organized religion and education, according to Shadrack.
Shadrack compared the stifling of the religious voice to when King Henry VIII persecuted those who refused to worship as directed in England.
Shadrack believes the 1954 Johnson Amendment was the first step in taking away the church’s right to the First Amendment. If elected to office, Shadrack plans on abolishing or amending the Johnson Amendment.
The Johnson Amendment was a change in the U.S. tax code that prohibited tax exempt organizations from issuing political endorsements and opposing political candidates, according to Shadrack.
Shadrack has a platform based primarily on his faith in God. The age-old question of the separation of church and state, and to what extent to honor it, comes in to play.
“Ultimately, I don’t think you can separate the two — church and state,” Shadrack said. “You don’t lay your faith down at the door step when you go in a public place.”
Despite Shadrack’s conflict with that portion of the Constitution, Shadrack said the Constitution must be honored, and those who are appointed should respect it.
“Either we have a constitution, or we don’t,” Shadrack said. “Either we have laws, and we follow them, and we elect people to follow them, or we don’t.”
Shadrack has also put much of his focus on the public school system.
According to Shadrack, the federal government should leave decisions concerning public education to state legislatures. He feels Common Core binds public schools to inappropriate federal standards and a one-size-fits-all curriculum.
Common Core is a federally instituted education curriculum that covers mathematics and English, according to corestandards.org. The curriculum has been accepted by 42 states and the District of Columbia. The program’s goal is to ensure all students finish the school year with the same knowledge.
There have been many arguments concerning whether Christianity and Islam should be taught in the public sector. While serving in the Alabama Senate, Shadrack said he voted against charter schools after finding out more than 50 percent of charter schools were owned by a Muslim.
“Do not teach Muslim religion without teaching Christianity,” Shadrack said. “There is such a push to Muslimize our nation. Most of them [Muslims] are really good people, but it is a religion that breeds radicals to the cruelest degree.”
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