House Democrats sent a letter to Speaker Johnson and the Office of the Chaplain asking why was the House’s daily opening prayer last month performed by pastor Jack Hibbs, “a radical Christian nationalist.” Hibbs was the Guest Chaplain under Johnson’s sponsorship.
Jack Hibbs’s dubious views
Right-wing pastor Jack Hibbs told his congregants in 2021 that anyone who believes in evolution must oppose marriage equality and that homosexuality “proves the existence of God,” reported Right Wing Watch. He also stated, “If evolution is true, then there would be no such thing as homosexuality.”
Hibbs on January 6
According to the letter, “Hibbs echoed Donald Trump’s election fraud lies and inflamed his followers” and justified the Capitol riots on Tony Perkins’ “Washington Watch,” claiming the election was “manipulated.” The letter described Hibbs as a “radical Christian Nationalist who helped fuel the January 6 insurrection and has a long record of spewing hateful vitriol toward non-Christians, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.”
Hibbs on LGBTQ community
The letter also reminded that the pastor insists that the U.S. was founded as a “Christian nation” while listing numerous attacks on the LGBTQ community. One example is calling transgender people “a “sexually perverted cult” and adding that the “transgender agenda” was planned by “Satan himself.”
Hibbs on gay marriage
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Hibbs comments that SCOTUS “crucified God’s word.” But, as the letter pointed out, there are more issues, including criticizing other religions, like preaching that “Christians are at ‘war’
against the ‘death cult’ of Islam, which he calls a ‘vehicle’ for Satan in the Last Days.”
The Californian lawmaker described the preaching
Jared Huffman of California told Roll Call, “After we picked our jaws up off the floor upon learning that this hate preacher had been allowed to give a guest invocation, I think many of us decided we need to start calling this out.” Huffman, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, penned the letter.
Why was Hibbs invited?
In the letter, the Democratic lawmakers demand to know why Hibbs was invited. Huffman confirmed he had not received a response from Speaker Johnson or the chaplain’s office. Huffman wondered, “So definitely, Chaplain Kibben was either asleep at the switch or allowed something that should have been disqualifying under her own standards.”
Bringing up old issues
Speaker Johnson’s beliefs are once again under the microscope following the letter. In December, Punchbowl News obtained a fundraising email from the House Speaker saying in part, “1 in 4 high school students identifies as something other than straight.” He wondered, “What are they being taught in school?”
“The most anti-equality” speaker in U.S. history
Following his election, Kelley Robinson, president of the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement that Johnson is “The most anti-equality” speaker in the nation’s history. The statement added, “This is a choice that will be a stain on the record of everyone who voted for him.”
Comparing homosexuliy to bestiality
Kelly Johnson, the House Speaker’s wife, offers counseling that believes sex is offensive to God if it is not between a man and a woman married to each other. Per the now-debunked website, “The agreement states that Onward Christian Counseling Services is grounded in the belief that […] puts being gay, bisexual or transgender in the same category as someone who has sex with animals or family members.”
Johnson was a “young earth creationist”
Speaker Johnson was reportedly a “young earth creationist,” meaning he believed that Earth is several thousand years old and people and dinosaurs coexisted. Bloomberg’s Matthew Yglesias shared on X on October 2023, “Mike Johnson is a young-earth creationist who supports banning abortion, overturning the 2020 election, cutting Medicaid and Social Security, and he’s also very much a generic member of the GOP caucus.”
God “prepared” Johnson
The House Speaker shared at a December event, “I worked to get Steve Scalise elected. And then Jim Jordan. And Tom Emmer. Thirteen people ran for the post. The Lord kept telling me to wait. And I waited and waited. And it came to the end, and the Lord said, ‘Now, step forward.’ ‘Me? I’m supposed to be Aaron.'”
School shootings are the product of the ’60s
Meidas Touch reported that in a 2016 sermon in the Christian Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, Johnson declared, “And people say, ‘How can a young person go into their schoolhouse and open fire on their classmates?’ Because we’ve taught a whole generation, a couple generations now of Americans, that there’s no right or wrong, that it’s about the survival of the fittest, and you evolve from the primordial slime.” He blamed “countercultural revolution, Woodstock, peace, and drugs,” as well as “no-fault divorce laws” and abortion.
Read the letter by the House Democrats here.
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