Carrie Prejean Boller, a former Miss California, was removed Wednesday from President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission following a contentious hearing on antisemitism for what she claimed were efforts to “force” commissioners to affirm Zionism, Anadolu reports.
Commission Chair Dan Patrick wrote on US social media platform X that the decision to remove Boller was his, accusing her of pursuing a “personal and political agenda” during a hearing Monday.
“No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue,” Patrick wrote, adding that what happened was “clearly, without question” grounds for her removal.
Boller wrote in a statement Tuesday that she would not resign and rejected accusations that she had pursued a political agenda.
“Forcing people to affirm Zionism as a condition of participation is not only wrong, it is directly contrary to religious freedom, especially on a body created to protect conscience,” she wrote. “As a Catholic, I have both a constitutional right and a God-given freedom of religion and conscience not to endorse a political ideology or a government that is carrying out mass civilian killing and starvation.”
The controversy stems from a heated hearing at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, where commissioners questioned witnesses about antisemitism in America.
Boller asked whether criticism of Israel, opposition to Zionism or protests against Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip should be considered “antisemitic.”
“If I don’t support the political state of Israel, am I an antisemite, yes or no?” she asked.
Among those testifying was American Jewish activist Shabbos Kestenbaum, who wrote Monday that he was “deeply disappointed” that one commissioner focused “exclusively on Israel” rather than discrimination against American Christians and Jews.
It appears that Laura Loomer is the one that pushed for her removal.
She noticed.
I hope she doesn't get arrested for noticing.
This is an injustice that should not stand..
Already gone cause she noticed.
Never arrest. Just cancellation and financial harm. The usual.
How can this be anti semite when the Jews are not even Semites? The vast majority of people on the planet have fallen for the deception.
this needs to be said early and often. they lie about everything. the jew will always tell you that nobody likes him, hut he will never tell you why
Appears as though her comments were not directed towards "Jews" but toward the political state of Israel
Sounds like she ran into a bunch of the Israel first ass kissers.
Far to many of our politicians take pride in kissing Israel's ass. Many of them like Ted Cruz run with that stated agenda like. They want to make sure the masters know they are their toady.
It appears that Laura Loomer is the one that pushed for her removal.
Every politician is doing this.
They kicked Jesus from the commission Break the commission up. This is a disgusting attempt to promote zionist policy by fake foolish Judas Christians. Christians cannot stand with Anti Christ. Rebuke in the Name of Jesus. Dan Patrick doesn't know or respect the name of Jesus. He should step down. I knew this commission was dung from the beginning.
She was removed after questioning a Jewish witness and making certain remarks, including:
“𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐙𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰. 𝐒𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮?”
“𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐙𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦.”
“𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫 (𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭)."
“𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞.”
*What was most interesting to me was how many Catholics pushed back against her on her X account.
It seems like she doesn't know many Catholics are Zionists.
Is this the new litmus test for Catholics??
I saw a Catholic Religious brother post that "𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐞 are 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥."
It seems that traditional Catholics and many new converts are LESS likely to accept the Evangelical dispensationalist view of Zionism.