Tell Speaker JohnsonStop letting antisemitic, anti-Muslim election-deniers serve as Guest Chaplains

Posted: Feb. 21, 2024

The U.S. House Guest Chaplain program is designed to be inclusive and inspirational. But Speaker Mike Johnson is abusing it to give a prominent pulpit to antisemitic, anti-Muslim, pro-insurrection, Christian-nationalist pastors instead.

Thankfully, prominent House members are speaking out in protest -- and we need to join them.

Recently, 26 members of Congress signed a letter objecting to Johnson's sponsorship of far-right media personality Pastor Jack Hibbs, whose opening prayer asked God to inflict our elected officials with "holy fear" in preparation for the "coming day of judgment."

Hibbs attended the January 6 MAGA rally in Washington, D.C., that led to the pro-Trump insurrection, preaching that January 6 would go down in history alongside the Revolutionary War. After the violence, Hibbs even tried to justify the attack on False Prophet Tony Perkins's radio show, falsely claiming that the election was "manipulated." He has also previously slurred Jewish people as being in a "stupor" and Muslim Americans as a "death cult" and a vehicle for Satan.

The role of the Guest Chaplain is to encourage love and common purpose -- not to antagonize, hate, lie, or threaten. And neither insurrectionists nor anti-Muslim and antisemitic leaders should ever be welcome on the House floor, period. Let's show Speaker Johnson that Christians reject his promotion of Christian-nationalist pastors now.

Sign the petition:

Dear Speaker Mike Johnson,

As members of the Christian organization Faithful America, we echo the concerns raised by 26 members of Congress about your decision to welcome Pastor Jack Hibbs into the House of Representatives as a Guest Chaplain. The Guest Chaplain program is designed to be inclusive and inspirational -- not to be abused to create a platform for insurrectionists, Christian nationalists, or those with a record of antisemitic and anti-Muslim remarks. Furthermore, the kind of bigoted vitriol and anti-democracy disinformation that we have seen from Pastor Hibbs is quite simply not what Jesus wants from us.

We urge you to stop manipulating the Guest Chaplain program to uplift divisive and hateful figures, and to commit to following the rules of the program moving forward -- including those that require attention to religious diversity and inclusion and to a focus on justice and peace.

Thank you.

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