Bob Unruh tried to frame criticism of a right-wing pastor as an attack on all Christians in a Feb. 16 WorldNetDaily article:
A coalition of Democrats in the U.S. House, led by self-proclaimed atheist Rep. Jared Huffman, has written to Speaker Mike Johnson to express members’ rage over a Christian pastor’s recent House invocation, and to express their intolerance for his views.
It was Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills who had been invited to deliver the invocation and, as a Christian, spoke of a “coming day of judgment.”
Democrats responded by claiming Hibbs is “radical Christian Nationalist who helped fuel the January 6th insurrection and [who] has a long record of hateful vitriol toward non-Christians, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.”
Unruh then moved to whitewashing the Capitol riot, which he initially described as merely “events”:
Hibbs suggested to the Times that Huffman was on thin ice with his unsupported claims that Hibbs was linked to the Jan. 6, 2021, events at the Capitol, which actually were a protest-turned-riot, not an insurrection.
Hibbs said he would challenge Huffman “to produce any connection I have with January 6 because I do take that as a slanderous statement.”
He confirmed he had “nothing” to do with those events.
Hibbs did attend the Trump rally that took place immediately before the riot, which Unruh didn’t mention. Further, Hibbs sought to justify the riot by playing the equivocation card: “This is what you get when you eject God from the courts and from the schools.”