{"id":2485034,"date":"2025-09-10T21:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-congress-members-groan-shout-no-as-boebert-asks-for-anyone-to-lead-prayer-in-wake-of-charlie-kirks-assassination\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:38:50","slug":"video-congress-members-groan-shout-no-as-boebert-asks-for-anyone-to-lead-prayer-in-wake-of-charlie-kirks-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-congress-members-groan-shout-no-as-boebert-asks-for-anyone-to-lead-prayer-in-wake-of-charlie-kirks-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Congress Members Groan, Shout &#8216;No&#8217; as Boebert Asks for Anyone to Lead Prayer in Wake of Charlie Kirk&#8217;s Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/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%2Fvideo-congress-members-groan-shout-no-as-boebert-asks-for-anyone-to-lead-prayer-in-wake-of-charlie-kirks-assassination%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=2485034&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>The article discusses the shooting and killing of Charlie Kirk,founder of Turning Point USA,at Utah Valley University. It highlights the reaction from political figures,focusing on the tension in the House of Representatives when Rep. Lauren Boebert requested a moment of prayer for Kirk. Her request was met wiht opposition and noisy objections from Democrats, illustrating political divisions. The article criticizes the left for being reluctant to sincerely pray or address the broader issue of political violence, accusing them of hypocrisy because they condemned &#8220;thoughts and prayers&#8221; after shootings involving conservatives but now resist such gestures when a conservative is targeted. it emphasizes the need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-great-divide-poll-shows-many-voters-would-consider-alternative-to-democracy-view-political-violence-as-acceptable\/\" title=\"Poll: Many US Voters Open to &#039;Alternative&#039; to Democracy, Accept ...\">denounce political violence<\/a> and calls on political leaders to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbt-group-tries-to-walk-back-equating-conservative-think-tank-head-to-hitler\/\" title=\"LGBT group retracts comparison of conservative think tank leader to Hitler.\">promote civil discourse<\/a>, while portraying the Democrats as inconsistent in thier response to violence against conservatives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the party which decries &ldquo;thoughts and prayers&rdquo; for not being enough in the wake of a shooting won&rsquo;t even pray at all when it&rsquo;s a conservative that gets shot.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, as you&rsquo;ve doubtlessly heard by now, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/charlie-kirk-warned-america-ticking-time-bomb-leftist-violence-5-months-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He was 31<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of 8:00 p.m. Eastern, it&rsquo;s unclear what the motive of the shooter is, if anything.<\/p>\n<p>What <em>is<\/em> clear, unfortunately, is that the left seems determined to do as little as possible to address the likely root cause of this &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >febrile political rhetoric &#038;mdash<\/a>; while still admitting that killing people for their political views is abhorrent.<\/p>\n<p>Take what happened on the floor of the House of Representatives when a moment of silence was offered for Kirk.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); 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Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, stood and asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-calls-nationwide-prayer-charlie-kirk-must-pray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for a moment of prayer aloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe that silent prayers get silent results,&rdquo; Boebert said. &ldquo;Is there someone who could lead us in a moment of prayer aloud for Charlie and his family?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Shouting then broke out amid groans of &ldquo;no&rdquo; from the Democrat side. Another lawmaker, unnamed in media reports, also objected; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5497111-shouting-house-silent-prayer-charlie-kirk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>, that lawmaker &ldquo;shouted something about children.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, then shouted back, causing a ruckus to break loose and prompting House Speaker Mike Johnson to bang his gavel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The House will be in order,&rdquo; Johnson shouted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH: Disgusting democrats in Congress objected to a prayer for Charlie Kirk after his brutal assassination.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder who is yelling at the Speaker? It&rsquo;s a woman. Any guesses? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oqddiJfCkv\">pic.twitter.com\/oqddiJfCkv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ZIONS OF ISRAEL (@Israeli_Sniper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Israeli_Sniper\/status\/1965913316439846980?\">September 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The House incident was indicative of the Democrats&rsquo; mood on Wednesday afternoon after news of Kirk&rsquo;s assassination broke.<\/p>\n<p>They were upset, kinda. If you forced them to be. Thoughts and secular prayers, but nothing serious.<\/p>\n<p>There was a general decrying of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-persist-with-violent-rhetoric-following-trump-shooting\/\" title=\"...ists persist with violent rhetoric following Trump ...\">political violence&#038;rdquo<\/a>; by people who had been busy calling President Donald Trump and his supporters threats to democracy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leftist-media-outlet-bragged-paying-witches-curse-charlie-kirk-two-days-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up until the moment it happened<\/a>. After the shooting, there were outlets which would mention the horror of a person being shot for expressing his political beliefs, while saying out of the other side of their mouths that he was a &ldquo;divisive figure, polarizing, lightning rod, whatever term you want to use.&rdquo; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/msnbc-makes-multiple-disgusting-claims-immediate-aftermath-charlie-kirk-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Before Johnson took the floor on Tuesday, he spoke with reporters about what had happened &mdash; and his words would ring truer once he got out there.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is detestable what&rsquo;s happened. Political violence has become all too common in American society, and this is not who we are. It violates core principles of our country, our Judeo-Christian heritage, our civil society, our American way of life, and it must stop,&rdquo; Johnson told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need every political figure, we need everyone who has a platform to say this loudly and clearly. We can settle disagreements and disputes in a civil manner, and political violence must be called out and has to stop.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The left believes this &mdash; for today, albeit as quietly as possible. The same way they believed this when no less than two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jasmine-crockett-makes-dangerously-false-claim-trump-assassination-attempt-suspects\/\">assassination attempts were carried out on Donald Trump&rsquo;s life in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time, one of America&rsquo;s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-gops-descent-into-chaos-at-the-center-of-dncs-strategy-to-hold-pivotal-swing-state\/\" title=\"DNC focuses on Michigan GOP&#039;s turmoil to secure key swing state\">prominent conservative activists<\/a> was shot and killed on camera, and the left can&rsquo;t even bring itself to say a prayer to stop it. In fact, they shout &ldquo;no&rdquo; when someone offers it.<\/p>\n<p>Let this be a lesson for America when it comes to how seriously the Democratic Party takes that &ldquo;political violence&rdquo; they seem to care so deeply about for the moment.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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