Johnson Invited Hate Pastor To Give House Invocation

January 31, 2024 Christianists, Republicans

Media Matters reports:

On January 30, pastor and far-right media figure Jack Hibbs gave the House of Representatives’ opening prayer as guest chaplain at the invitation of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). Hibbs used the opportunity to pray for God to bring “holy fear” to the representatives in preparation for a “coming day of judgment” in which “all who have been and are now in authority will answer to” God.

Hibbs is a pro-Trump Christian nationalist pastor who has built a right-wing media profile through interviews on Fox News, Newsmax, and Charlie Kirk’s Salem Media program, and his weekly commentaries have aired on Fox Business.

Hibbs has openly supported right-wing candidates and campaigned against LGBTQ inclusion in public schools, and he frequently warns followers of a coming “Antichrist.” Hibbs made headlines after the January 6 insurrection for defending the violence at the Capitol as “what you get when you eject God from the courts and from the schools,” and he later said that President Joe Biden “needs to be facing court-martial.”

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