Forcing Their Religion On Us.

Congress has chaplains, in the past they had non-controversial religious but now they have a far-right guess chaplain.

House Democrats question Johnson’s invitation of far-right preacher known for anti-LGBTQ views

The Hill

BY BROOKE MIGDON 

February 16, 2024

More than two dozen House Democrats in a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and the Office of the Chaplain are demanding answers as to why the Speaker was permitted to sponsor a guest chaplain known for his anti-LGBTQ views and inflammatory rhetoric late last month.

Democrats in a letter sent Thursday to Johnson and House Chaplain Margaret Kibben denounced Johnson’s sponsorship of Jack Hibbs, a far-right preacher who has embraced the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen and once said the acceptance of LGBTQ people is evidence that humanity is living in “the last days.”

Hibbs, who has also been accused of making disparaging remarks against Muslims and Jewish people, was invited by Johnson to deliver the opening prayer that marks the beginning of each legislative day on Jan. 30.

Democrats in Thursday’s letter characterized Hibbs as a “radical Christian Nationalist who helped fuel the January 6th insurrection and has a long record of spewing hateful vitriol toward non-Christians, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.”

They claim that we are forcing our rights on them but they are the ones forcing their religion on us, we are for inclusion and they are for exclusion!

There are rules about chaplains, but…

“It appears that Speaker Johnson – with the tacit approval of the House Chaplain – decided to flout the Chaplaincy guidelines and use the platform of the Guest Chaplain to lend the imprimatur of Congress to an ill-qualified hate preacher who shares the Speaker’s Christian nationalist agenda and his overriding antipathy toward church-state separation,” Democrats wrote in the letter.

Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Kibben, who has served as House Chaplain since 2021, declined to comment on the letter.

The Republicans don’t care about laws, rules, or court rulings… it their way or the highway.