The report exposed Shea’s deep ties to the far-right militia movement, as well as a document he authored laying out the “Biblical Basis for War,” in which he declared that “the enemy” must agree to accept bans on abortion, same-sex marriage, communism, and idolatry and agree to live under biblical law. If these demands were refused, Shea declared that the only solution was to “kill all males.”
In the wake of the report, the state’s House Republican Caucus stripped Shea of his committee assignments and booted him out of the party. Shea refused to resign his seat but did not run for reelection in 2020 and eventually took a position as a pastor of a far-right local church.
Last Sunday, Shea delivered a sermon called “Christian Nationalism, Dominion, and Theology” in which he promoted and defended both Seven Mountains Dominionism and Christian nationalism, insisting that right-wing Christians are “supposed to rule over the nations.”