{"id":2002730,"date":"2023-08-16T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-congressman-under-fire-for-attacking-christian-woman-over-her-faith\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:26:03","slug":"republican-congressman-under-fire-for-attacking-christian-woman-over-her-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-congressman-under-fire-for-attacking-christian-woman-over-her-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Congressman Criticized for Targeting Christian Woman&#8217;s Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-congressman-under-fire-for-attacking-christian-woman-over-her-faith%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002730&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Max Miller (R-OH)\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trump-unloads-on-lebron-james-his-racist-rants-are-divisive-nasty-insulting-and-demeaning\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Trump Unloads On LeBron James: \u2018His RACIST Rants Are Divisive, Nasty, Insulting, And Demeaning\u2019\">faced intense backlash<\/a> this week from all corners of the political Right after criticizing a \u2064woman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-congressman-under-fire-for-attacking-christian-woman-over-her-faith\/\" title=\"GOP Congressman Criticized for Targeting Christian Woman's Faith\">heartfelt social media post<\/a> about her \u200bChristian \u2062faith.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, Republican activist Lizzie Marbach, passionately\u2062 wrote \u200bon X: \u2063\u201cThere\u2019s no hope for any \u200bof us outside of \u200chaving faith in Jesus Christ alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller&#8217;s response was swift and controversial:\u2062 \u201cThis is one of the most bigoted tweets I have ever seen. Delete it, Lizzie. Religious freedom in the United States applies to every religion. You have gone too far.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This \u2063is one of the most bigoted tweets\u200c I \u2062have ever \u2064seen. <\/p>\n<p>Delete \u200cit, Lizzie.\u200b <\/p>\n<p>Religious freedom in\u200b the United States applies to every religion. <\/p>\n<p>You have gone too far. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QCx8oAT1Kr\">https:\/\/t.co\/QCx8oAT1Kr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Miller\u200b (@MaxMillerOH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxMillerOH\/status\/1691564395342488045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, \u20632023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Miller faced widespread criticism from within\u2062 the Republican\u200d Party and the conservative political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo your constituents know that you consider basic Christian teaching to \u200dbe \u2018bigoted\u2019?\u201d\u2064 asked Daily Wire podcast host \u200cMatt\u2064 Walsh. \u201cThey do now I\u2062 guess.\u200d Good luck in the next\u200b election!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Trump political commentator Jack Posobiec posted: \u201cReal talk: You are a sitting GOP Congressman yet have zero tweets about Fani\u2063 Willis and the corrupt prosecution of the GOP frontrunner, but instead decided to take the time today \u2062to launch an attack [on] a pro-life\u200d staffer for \u2062professing her faith. And you wonder why Republicans lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Political commentator Allie Beth Stuckey\u200b responded: \u201cWhat a weird, disturbing thing you\u2019ve tweeted. This is basic Christianity. John\u2062 14:6. Anyone who is actually a Christian believes this. Lizzie said nothing about forcing people\u2063 to believe as she believes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReligious liberty means you\u2019re\u2062 free to believe that, and Lizzie is free to believe in her faith; and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-jeffries-criminal-justice-reform-advocate-blasted-on-twitter-after-saying-lock-up-kyle-rittenhouse\/\" title=\"Rep. Jeffries, Criminal Justice Reform Advocate, Blasted on Twitter After Saying \u2018Lock Up\u2019 Kyle Rittenhouse\u00a0\">sitting congressman<\/a> \u2064like Max has no authority to order either of you to shut up about your \u2064beliefs,\u201d said DeSantis Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw. \u201cHe \u2062seems to fundamentally misunderstand what religious liberty means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Trump cabinet member Russ Vought\u2064 wrote: \u201cI expect it from Bernie Sanders but a Republican\u200c Congressman from Ohio with thousands\u200d of Christian constituents &#038; the son-in-law of the candidate everyone is \u2062telling me is the most conservative in the \u2062race? Hard to believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Miller\u200d later apologized for his tweet after facing pushback from \u200bfellow Republicans, writing: \u201cI posted something\u2062 earlier that conveyed a message I did not intend. I will not try to hide my mistake or run from it. I sincerely apologize to Lizzie and to everyone who\u2064 read my post.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I posted \u200bsomething earlier that conveyed\u2062 a \u2063message I did not intend. <\/p>\n<p>I will not try to hide my mistake or run from \u2062it.  <\/p>\n<p>I sincerely apologize to Lizzie\u2062 and to everyone \u2064who\u200d read my post. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PNd8iSdNCS\">https:\/\/t.co\/PNd8iSdNCS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Miller (@MaxMillerOH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxMillerOH\/status\/1691617105924272208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August \u200c16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) received backlash from various factions on the Right for his criticism of Republican activist Lizzie Marbach&#8217;s social media post. Marbach had expressed her dependence on her Christian faith, stating on X: &#8220;Our only hope lies in having faith in Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2002731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}