Hibbs on politics
Hibbs has been an active political activist both from the pulpit (yeah, fuck reasonable rules) and on the national stage, e.g. as a prominent speaker at the 2023 Pray the Vote event. Indeed, Hibbs’ church has its own political organization, Real Impact (current director: Gina Gleason), which “monitors the cultural landscape, including social issues, legislation, and public policy, through the lens of Scripture” and whose “goal is to educate, equip, and encourage Christians to have a godly influence on our society and culture”. They currently have control over the Chino Valley Unified School District, whose three-member majority is made up of attendees at Hibbs’ church.
As a political activist, Hibbs has been a consistent champion of various election fraud conspiracy theories, and not only about the 2020 presidential election: Hibbs called election fraud also e.g. in California’s 2021 gubernatorial recall election, where he claimed to have documented proof that mail-in ballots containing votes for Larry Elder were thrown away in trash cans and ditches – he neglected to actually provide said proof, of course. But then, Hibbs has no qualms about lying about anything else either, especially if his lies can be perceived to support a Christian Nationalist narrative.
No fan of Joe Biden, Hibbs has suggested that God put Biden in office “so that the borders would be left open,” thereby allowing terrorists to enter to carry out attacks as punishment for “all of our sins” (such as electing Biden and leaving the borders “open”), all in preparation for the End Times. He has also declared that people who vote for Democrats cannot be Christians, that they are “evil” and that he doesn’t want anyone who votes for them anywhere near his family. Indeed, “the Democratic Party is a death cult”. In 2025, Hibbs blamed Democratic politicians in California for the wildfires that devastated the Los Angeles region, and declared that the Founding Fathers would have had Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass arrested and executed for dereliction of duty (his understanding of the Constitution is naturally a bit like his understanding of most things, possibly including the Bible; Hibbs also believes e.g. that the Founding Fathers banned Catholics from being president or serving in Congress). Meanwhile, he has asked God to forgive the people of California for electing “people with antichrist worldviews” like Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris.
That said, Hibbs has had some (rather curious) criticisms of Trump as well. On the other hand, he has also said that critics of Trump other than himself “may be Americans in title, but not in spirit” and that “they’d sacrifice you in a second just to defend their woke ideology.” Critics of Christian nationalism, meanwhile, are “literal cancers” that are carrying out the agenda of “the Third Reich under Hitler.”
Note that his obsession with the border is not, for Hibbs, merely a matter of immigration. Hibbs thinks that Mexico is literally planning attacks on the US because of Satan and because “America has forgotten God as a nation”: “I think Tijuana, I think across the border in Mexico, I think that’s Gaza. That’s the U.S.’s Gaza forming. I wouldn’t be surprised if we start seeing rockets being launched from Mexico into Mission Bay [in California], attacking the Navy, attacking homes. I wouldn’t doubt it.” We certainly accept that Hibbs doesn’t harbor doubts, and it confirms, again, our assessment of his cognitive abilities and general awareness of how the world actually hangs together.
It is worth noting that Hibbs has been a relentless champion, supporter and mentor of US Representative Young Kim. Kim has, on her side, praised Hibbs for “doing an awesome job shepherding, guiding our congregation”, not the least by helping the congregation figure out “who the candidates are with biblical values so we don’t have the legislation, the sex education that is passing while we were sleeping.”
At least he repays favors. Since it was Mike Johnson who invited Hibbs to speak before Congress in 2024, Hibbs quickly called an emergency broadcast when Johnson later came under threat from other Republicans seeking to remove him. As Hibbs saw it, Johnson was “under spiritual attack” from the demonic powers “that are surrounding Washington D.C.” (indeed, from “principalities and power and dark, dark, invisible rulers in high places”) and that are seeking to prevent the US from helping Israel, and he led his followers in prayers that God would “bind every satanic demonic power and stronghold, every twisted narrative, dialogue, lie, manipulative plot and plan, the literal wiles of the devil” to protect Johnson’s speakership.
Hibbs on gays, sex and reproduction
Like many of his ilk, Hibbs has strong feelings about sex and reproduction. Although he emphasizes that he would “never judge” in vitro fertilization, he also asks people to remember that “God opens and closes the womb according to his will” and that IVF is a process where people “throw away 500 children” to get one child; in other words, IVF is mass-murder of children and a mockery of God but hey, ‘no judgment’.
His views on gay rights, meanwhile, are apparently formed as an entry in an ongoing competition for attention by being more hysterically dumb and fanatic than the last bigot; homosexuality “destroys your body and it ruins your psyche, and it ravages your soul”, according to Hibbs, and after the Supreme Court approved marriage equality, Hibbs warned his congregation that “it’s going to be like it was in the days of Lot”, where “violent” LGBTQ people would go door-to-door and threaten “to sodomize people who disagree with them.”
A particularly nefarious player is apparently the public school system, which wants to “mentally molest your children ... thereby setting them up for the day of actual physical molestation, to get them to think it's OK to go through the horrific abuse of rape in the name of education.” Apparently the public school system is already responsible for natural disasters like Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which according to Hibbs were caused by “debased reprobates” indoctrinating students into a religion of sex and perversion and telling God to “get your Bible out of our class because we want to teach our kids pornography.”
Hibbs on other religions
Hibbs claims that Jewish people should abandon their religion – at least “true Jews” are those who don’t “get bogged down in Judaism, which ... cannot save you.” Getting them to do so is a challenge, however, since Jewish people are under the curse of a “God-given blindness”, but it is also pretty urgent: Hibbs predictably connected the attacks on Palestine to prophecies of the End Times, so it is important for his Christian followers to convert Jews to Christianity as soon as possible.
At least there is hope for Jewish people. Islam, on the other hand, “is violent, it is deadly, it’s a death cult” (yeah, them too), and Hibbs has warned his followers that their Muslim neighbors are going to turn on them “very soon” and side with ISIS. A companion guide issued by his church provides more details on how Muslims are a threat to the US, e.g. because “Muslims are mandated to expand where ever they are. They must convert you and or your children. And they must kill those who do not convert.” Moreover, “if you’re a good Muslim, you cannot swear allegiance to the US Constitution. You’re not allowed.” Disaster might already have struck in places like New York: in November 2025, Hibbs said that “some are speculating that ... this will be the last Christmas in New York for as long as Mamdani is the mayor.” “Some” here would presumably refer precisely to Hibbs himself.
At least he has denounced Paula White as a “false teacher” and Kenneth Copeland as a “goofball” and a “charlatan”, but although that might to untrained eyes suggest some level of appreciation of reality, we are pretty confident that it is, in Hibbs’ case, merely a matter of gatekeeping his segment of the market.
Hibbs on science
Hibbs have argued that we should “cancel Darwin” ostensibly because “Hitler Loved Evolution”; as Hibbs sees things, “Hitler’s love for evolution drove him to believe in a supremely evolved race! The Aryans were at the top and the Jews were at the bottom.” No, he doesn’t have the faintest grasp of the theory of evolution, but he does of course not care either. Apparently he doesn’t need to, since he’s already got a slamdunk argument against the theory of evolution: anyone who believes in evolution must oppose marriage equality, since homosexuality cannot lead to procreation and is therefore inconsistent with evolution; indeed “LGBTQ actions prove the existence of God”, adding (perhaps because he is dimly realizing that he is sliding in a, for himself, awkward direction here) “because God’s word says this would be some of the outcome and actions of the Last Days.” Betcha those closeminded scientists hadn’t thought of that one.
Diagnosis: Yes, he’s said of other insane and stupid shit, too, but … well, you get the gist. And no, you probably don’t want your family to come near Hibbs or anyone who thinks his deranged and hate-fueled misunderstandings of the universe works have something going for them. Apparently many enough, including people in positions of power, thinks precisely that.
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