{"id":2568849,"date":"2026-02-11T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/religious-liberty-commission-drops-carrie-prejean-boller\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:25:25","slug":"religious-liberty-commission-drops-carrie-prejean-boller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/religious-liberty-commission-drops-carrie-prejean-boller\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Liberty Commission drops Carrie Prejean Boller"},"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\">14<\/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%2Freligious-liberty-commission-drops-carrie-prejean-boller%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=2568849&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>Carrie Prejean Boller was removed from President Trump\u2019s Religious liberty Commission by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick after controversial remarks during a hearing on antisemitism. Patrick said she hijacked the hearing for her personal and political agenda and announced the decision on X, insisting that no member of the commission has the right to do so.Prejean Boller,a former Miss California USA,had questioned Jewish students and leaders about antisemitism definitions,whether anti-Zionism counts as antisemitism,and claimed that her Catholic faith does not embrace Zionism,while wearing a pin showing the U.S. and Palestinian flags and calling Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza a genocide; she faced boos from the audience during the hearing. In defending the move, Patrick said the commission would deliver an vital report to President Trump and stressed that the body should <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >defend religious liberty<\/a> while remaining open to diverse voices, a stance echoed by others who have criticized the commission for perceived bias. Prejean Boller has said she will not resign, arguing that purging dissenting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-puts-largest-christian-university-in-us-in-its-crosshairs-after-already-massive-fine\/\" title=\"Biden targets top US Christian university with hefty fine\">religious voices<\/a> undermines religious liberty; her ouster comes amid broader conservative debates over Israel policy and ongoing lawsuits alleging bias within the commission.  <\/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\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">White House Religious Liberty Commission drops Carrie Prejean Boller after accusing her of hijacking antisemitism hearing<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2502373\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R-TX), the chairman of the Trump administration&rsquo;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/religious-freedom\/\">Religious Liberty Commission<\/a>, removed Carrie Prejean Boller from the commission following her remarks in a heated hearing on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antisemitism\/\">antisemitism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from President Trump&rsquo;s Religious Liberty Commission. No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue. This is clearly, without question, what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America. This was my decision,&rdquo; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/danpatrick\/status\/2021600879703478438\">Patrick wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4453564\/trump-contracts-us-finland-icebreaker-davie-defense\/\">Trump awards final contracts under US-Finnish icebreaker partnership to Canada-linked defense company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4453368\/iran-gaza-and-ending-military-aid-to-israel-hang-over-trump-and-netanyahu-meeting\/\">Iran, Gaza, and ending military aid to Israel hang over Trump and Netanyahu meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4453481\/trump-reagan-folded-japan-switzerland-tariffs\/\">Trump says Reagan &#8216;folded&#8217; to Japan, brags about raising Swiss tariffs after &#8216;aggressive&#8217; call<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Prejean Boller&rsquo;s removal comes after she questioned Jewish students and religious leaders on the definition of antisemitism, whether anti-Zionism is considered antisemitism, and said that her <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/catholic-church\/\">Catholic<\/a> faith teaches her not to embrace <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/zionism\/\">Zionism<\/a>. Prejean Boller, who won the Miss California USA pageant in 2009, also wore a pin that showed the U.S. flag adjacent to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/palestinian\/\">Palestinian<\/a> flag, as she called Israel&rsquo;s actions in the Gaza Strip following Hamas&rsquo;s deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\">Israel<\/a> a &ldquo;genocide.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Prejean Boller asked Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, &ldquo;If I don&rsquo;t support the political state of Israel, am I an antisemite?&rdquo; Berman responded that he doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo;personally label people,&rdquo; but &ldquo;if somebody says they&rsquo;re an anti-Zionist, they are saying about themselves that they have a double standard, and hypocrisy, and they&rsquo;re taking antisemitic positions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t agree with that, because as a Catholic, I don&rsquo;t agree that the new, modern state of Israel has any biblical prophecy meaning at all,&rdquo; Preajean Boller said.<\/p>\n<p>Prejean Boller faced ridicule from the hearing audience at the Museum of the Bible as she made her remarks, responding to the boos and outcry with, &ldquo;I think you should remain quiet and respect this hearing.&rdquo; She also questioned a Jewish University of California, Los Angeles graduate who experienced antisemitism whether speaking out against the humanitarian crisis in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gaza\/\">Gaza<\/a> should be seen as antisemitic.<\/p>\n<p>In Patrick&rsquo;s statement announcing that he removed Prejean Boller from the commission, he said that in the Spring, the commission would &ldquo;deliver one of the most important reports in American history&rdquo; to President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The President respects all faiths. He believes that all Americans have a right to receive the great inheritance given to them by our founding fathers in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/first-amendment\/\">First Amendment<\/a>. I am grateful to President Trump for having the vision and boldness to create this Commission. Fighting for the Word of God and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ca-churches-finally-got-help-from-scotus-and-it-was-a-huge-blow-to-gavin-newsom\/\" title=\"CA Churches Finally Got Help from SCOTUS and It Was a Huge Blow to Gavin Newsom\">religious freedom<\/a> is what this nation was founded upon,&rdquo; Patrick wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Prejean Boller has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CarriePrejean1\/status\/2021274057963094254\">stood by her statements and lines of questioning<\/a> from Monday&rsquo;s hearing on her social media pages. She rejected calls for her voluntary resignation that came following the hearing, saying in a Monday statement, &ldquo;I will not be resigning from this commission.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Anyone demanding that I do so only proves my point: that in practice this body is being treated as if it is open only to pro-Israel Zionists, rather than to the diverse range of religious voices it was created to represent. A commission meant to defend religious liberty cannot purge commissioners whose faith leads them to different conclusions,&rdquo; Prejean Boller said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3919767\/catholicism-uncomfortable-prominence-trumpworld-us-politics\/\">THE COUNCIL OF TRUMP: CATHOLICISM&rsquo;S UNCOMFORTABLE PROMINENCE IN US POLITICS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prejean Boller, who aligns with anti-Israel figures on the Right such as Candice Owens, is the latest example of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3879642\/kevin-roberts-heritage-foundation-drama-antisemitism-divided-conservative-movement\/\">split among conservatives<\/a> in their views on the Jewish state, which was heightened when former Fox commentator <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tucker-carlson\/\">Tucker Carlson<\/a> invited right-wing streamer Nick Fuentes on his podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Prejean Boller&rsquo;s ouster also comes days after multifaith groups <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/press\/religious-liberty-commission-lawsuit\/\">sued the commission<\/a> for what they called &ldquo;unbalanced and biased viewpoints&rdquo; and a lack of religious diversity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump panel ousts Prejean Boller over antisemitism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2568850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP090512015778-e1770843223315.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[73610,50410,32274,73611],"class_list":["post-2568849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-carrie-prejean-boller","tag-controversy-2","tag-religious-freedom","tag-religious-liberty-commission"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP090512015778-e1770843223315.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568849","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\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568853,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568849\/revisions\/2568853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}