Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, California, had a message to share with Christians all over the country this week, so he took to his social media accounts and urged fellow believers not to cast a ballot for any Democrats come November, referring to the Democratic Party as a “death cult”due to its sickening and worshipful obsession with legalizing abortion without any limitations. Without a doubt, abortion is the civil rights issue of the modern era. All human beings deserve the right to life. Both science and the Bible confirm life starts at the moment of conception.
Hibbs posted a video on X this past Wednesday going on to say what many of us are thinking when he said that “both parties drive me nuts,” however, he explained that he believes the Democratic Party to be “100 percent pro-death” and a “death cult.” Which they are. Look how obsessive leftists are about protecting abortion, which is the murder of an innocent child within the womb. There is a clear spiritual underpinning to this issue.
“Who should you vote for? For the Christian, it’s super easy,” he remarked. “If you pull back rhetoric and emotion, it’s a slam dunk. There’s one party that’s more pro-life than the other.”
“The Democrat Party is, in fact, a bona fide, card-carrying, platform-holding, death cult,” Hibbs continued in the video. “Kill the baby, even after its born, kill the baby. Just on this topic alone, a Christian cannot vote for a Democrat candidate.”
“You cannot say to God, ‘I am a lover of God, a lover of the Word, a lover of Jesus and I’m a follower of my Lord, but I’m going to vote to kill babies,'” Hibbs said.
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According to The Christian Post, Hibbs then said that if former President Donald Trump beats Vice President Kamala Harris in the November election, “we’re going to have a plethora of great people” in the administration, adding that if you cast a ballot in favor of a Republican, “you get a lot of good stuff.”
Trump’s presidency led to the selection of three U.S. Supreme Court Justices who voted to overturn the 1973 ruling that made abortion a national right in 2022, allowing states more freedom to regulate abortion. Since Trump’s 2020 election defeat, there has been much internal debate over the revising of the GOP Party Platform to no longer include a call for a national abortion ban. For his part, Trump has voiced his disagreement with state laws that ban abortion early in gestation, including a six-week abortion ban in Florida. He previously seemed to imply support for Florida’s Amendment 4, which, if passed in November, would effectively allow for abortions for any reason up until the moment of birth.
“I think the six-week is too short,” Trump, a Florida resident, told NBC News’ Dasha Burns in a recent interview. “I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.” Later, in an interview with Fox News, Trump said that he would not be voting for the pro-choice state amendment, though he reiterated his opposition to the six-week standard.
In his video, Hibbs acknowledged that the GOP platform is “not totally but is still a pro-life platform.” In February, Hibbs garnered controversy when he told his congregation during a worship service to vote for a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, former Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star Steve Garvey.
An organization comprised of angry atheists, Freedom From Religion Foundation, was not happy to hear someone endorsing a candidate from the pulpit so they penned a letter and sent it to the IRS, requesting that the church be denied is tax-exempt status. Hibbs has denied making an endorsement from the pulpit.
“In this instance, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills has breached the responsibilities of its tax-exempt status by openly endorsing a candidate for elected office,” Christopher Line of FFRF said in the letter. “We write to respectfully request that the IRS immediately investigate Calvary Chapel Chino Hills and ensure that it no longer receives the benefits of 501(c)(3) status and that donations made to the church are no longer treated as tax deductible.”
The 1954 Johnson Amendment prohibits tax-exempt churches from participating or intervening in any political campaign, including through the publishing or distributing of statements, endorsing or opposing candidates for public office. Calvary Chapel Chino Hills has been very active in registering members to vote and collecting tens of thousands of mail-in ballots to boost Christian turnout in the last few elections. Through its Real Impact ministry, the church has sought to equip other churches “to stand for righteousness in the public square.”
Hibbs is really, really good at getting on the nerves of congressional Democrats. Back in February he really riled them up when he served as a guest chaplain in the House, leading an opening prayer.