California megachurch Pastor Jack Hibbs took to social media this week to offer his apparent endorsement of former President Donald Trump, though without ever mentioning Trump by name.
Hibbs urged Christians not to vote for Democratic candidates, expressing his belief that the party is “a death cult.”
“Let me first of all preface what I’m about to say, because it’s so volatile; it gets everybody all freaked out,” Hibbs said to start the video post. “I personally am a monarchist. I believe in a ruling, reigning king. I’m waiting for him to bring his politics to us in his coming.”
“Having said that, I’m more of a person who refuses to indicate,” Hibbs continued. “‘So what are you? Republican, or Democrat?’ Both parties drive me nuts. There used to be a difference between the two. Not so much [anymore].”
Hibbs has long been on the record as an advocate for Republican politics, frequently expressing support for Trump. Earlier this year, he endorsed a Republican senatorial candidate from the pulpit of his church.
“But let me put it to you this way,” Hibbs said. “Regarding this upcoming election, who should you vote for? For the Christian, it’s super easy. It’s super easy. Because if you pull back rhetoric and emotion, it’s a slam dunk.”
“There is one party that’s more pro-life than the other. In fact, the other is 100% pro-death. It’s a death cult. And I’m talking about the Democrat party,” Hibbs continued. “The Democrat party is in fact a bona fide, card-carrying, platform-holding, death cult. ‘Kill the baby. Even after it’s born, kill the baby.’”
Partial-birth abortion was outlawed in the United States in 2003, when Congress passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. The Supreme Court upheld the legislation as constitutional in 2007. Nevertheless, late-term abortions are legal in some states, such as New York, which allows medical practitioners to perform abortions up to the day of the birth.
“Just on this topic alone, a Christian cannot vote for a Democrat candidate. It’s impossible. 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 went on to say. “You can go ahead and do that, but you’re going to stand before the Lord to give an answer for that.”
While Trump was once hailed as the “most pro-life president” in American history, he has been moving the Republican Party to the left on the issue in recent months.
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When the Republican Party assembled in Milwaukee in July, the official platform was revised to remove any reference to a national abortion ban, and Trump’s campaign has indicated that Trump would veto a national ban on abortion if it were passed by Congress during his presidency.
