Far-right pastor Joel Webbon is a racist and unapologetic Christian nationalist and a theocratic fascist who believes that the American people must be governed exclusively by "Christian American men."
Given such views, it was no surprise to hear him fume on a recent episode of his "Right Response Ministries" podcast that there are "foreigners ruling over us" while discussing the New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani.
"We are being conquered," Webbon declared. "We are voting in, voluntarily, our own demise and giving the heritage of our fathers to foreigners instead of our children. This is a very, very wicked thing."
"It does not matter if the politician in question is running as a Republican who's memorized the Declaration of Independence and wears a cowboy hat and a Texas flag shirt at his rodeo photo ops or if he's a blatant socialist in New York," he continued. "In either case, if your name is [Ilhan] Omar or Vivek [Ramaswamy] or Zohran, you're not American. You can be here and behave as a guest, but you cannot hold political office, you cannot rule over the native citizenry of this nation. Absolutely not. And any true red-blooded American who's celebrating these things or even passively sitting by and allowing these things to happen is a traitor to God and country."
As these comments amply demonstrate, Webbon is an unapologetic fascist who thinks that this country must be governed by a Christian dictator that will “rule with an iron fist” and force everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”
Under his preferred form of Christian nationalist theocracy, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood and out of public office; Catholics relegated to second-class citizenship; immigrants shot for trying to enter the country; adulterers put to death; women banned from voting and publicly executed for making false claims of sexual assault; and the government used to "absolutely terrorize" his political enemies.
In 2023, Webbon was among the contributors to a document called “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel.” Drafted by Christian nationalists like Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, former Trump administration official William Wolfe, and others, the document declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” Wolfe is a close associate of OMB Director Russ Vought, a proponent of Christian nationalism who declared his desire to put federal bureaucrats "in trauma."
In addition to serving as pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas, Webbon is also the founder of Right Response Ministries, through which he organizes events like the “Christ Is King: How To Defeat Trashworld” conference that featured a variety of far-right Christian nationalist activists like Deevers, Steve Deace, Stephen Wolfe, Auron MacIntyre, Andrew Isker, and others.
