Since he’s already decided he isn’t running for reelection, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) is burning the proverbial boats and going after members of his party he believes are a cancer on the GOP and the nation.
For example, Kinzinger (along with Liz Cheney) was brave enough to accept an invitation and serve on the January 6 House Select Committee where he is doing a great job as a member of that panel.
And now the Illinois Republican is pushing back on remarks made by Rep. Lauren Boebert, who had this to say during a speech she made at Cornerstone Christian Center in Basalt, Colorado:
“The reason we had so many overreaching regulations in our nation is because the church complied. The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it. And I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like what they say it does.”
As HuffPost notes, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is clear:
The First Amendment, from 1791, states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
This is widely held to mean that church and state should be separate. Amid a spate of recent Supreme Court rulings, though, critics charge that the conservative-dominated court is dismantling that separation and eroding laws intended to prevent the government from pushing any particular faith.
That led Kinzinger to label Boebert a member of what he called the “Christian Taliban.”
“There is no difference between this and the Taliban. We must [oppose] the Christian Taliban. I say this as a Christian.”
Others also clapped back at Boebert, and their comments were on-point. Take a look:
Yes! Can we please ship Lauren Boebert to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, or Iran? And make sure it’s a one-way ticket. We don’t want her back.