Rep. Adam Kinzinger is slamming fellow Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert after the Colorado politician said she was “tired of this separation of church and state junk.”
“There is no difference between this and the Taliban,” 44-year-old Kinzinger, who represents Illinois, wrote on Twitter.
“We must opposed the Christian Taliban,” he added. “I say this as a Christian.”
In a later tweet, he described his intention as calling out “Christian nationalism,” writing, “I can’t find anywhere Jesus said that the Government matters to him.”
Two days prior to Boebert’s primary election, she preached to churchgoers at an event saying, “The church is supposed to direct the government, the government is not supposed to direct the church.”
“I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk,” she continued to tell the Colorado Springs crowd on Sunday. “This is not in the Constitution, it was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like what they say it does.”
Judicial interpretations of the First Amendment state that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Legal scholars, government officials and the Supreme Court have upheld this clause as establishing what people refer to as the “separation of church and state.”
In 1802, Founding Father Thomas Jefferson coined the “separation” phrase in his correspondence with the Danbury Baptist Association. Jefferson, a central figure in establishing the U.S. government, wrote that the First Amendment built “a wall of separation between Church & State.”
Boebert has made controversy a key part of her political brand, while Kinzinger has decided to take a more moderate tone.
Kinzinger, a former Air National Guard pilot who served two tours in Iraq and is now a member of the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, has become one of the most prominent Republican lawmakers to speak out against Trump, 76. He was one of 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote to impeach the former president for “incitement of insurrection” after the deadly U.S. Capitol riot in 2021.
In 2020, the Illinois lawmaker talked about his push against conspiracy theorists amid the presidential election, which featured a handful of congressional candidates who had voiced support for QAnon, a bizarre and macabre network of beliefs including that Trump is at war with secret evildoers.
Boebert, who won her GOP primary bid for reelection on Tuesday, has previously expressed support for some QAnon conspiracies.
However, she hasn’t called herself a follower. She has, however said, “Everything that I’ve heard of Q, I hope that this is real because it only means that America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values.”
“There’s a lot of people in Congress who don’t see this as the problem I see it as, which is not the near term,” Kinzinger said two months prior to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which was fueled by baseless claims that President Joe Biden had “stolen” the election from Trump.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Big Frog in a dwindling pond of Rinos is so full of himself!
Kinzinger and Liz are no longer relavant as republicans. The bible may not say anything about the government mattering to christians. But I do remember Jesus being upset about the government tax collectors and going into their place and overturning tables. Maybe as christians we should be upset about how our tax money is being used from abortion to illegal immigration. And what christian would prttey much say that the govermnent shouldn’t care about God and the bible.
Boebert is a wacko and so are those who follow and vote for her.
Adam is what a real patriot looks and sounds and acts like. Not clinging to political power and dishonoring himself as the rest of the Republican party has done. And all that for a man that cost them the White House, the Congress and the Senate. Also a man that would run over them with a Mack truck in a second for political power.
Kinzinger is simply a RINO crybaby .Democrats love him because he parrots back their crazy opinions.Its a good thing this whiner isn’t going to run again in November.Its amazing this wokester is able to stay hydrated,because he is continuously crying
If Kinzinger is a Christian; why is he trying
to destroy the best President we have had
in my lifetime?? It is getting SO old!
Every few months the Liberals and RINOS
dig and dig trying to find something to
prevent President Trump from running in
2024. Will never happen!!
Excuse me Rep. Kinsinger, but you cannot be a Christian and be a part of this “joke” committee called the Jan. 6 Committee. It’s all one sided, filled with “testimony” that are all lies, stories, made up fairy tales. Rep. Boebert has it right, there is NO SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE in our Constitution. If you knew the Constitution, it states basically that no one in government, not the POTUS, Congress, or anyone else, can make one religion the religion for all, and, that religious leaders cannot delegate law, that’s all. If you moron’s in office would actually read and study the Constitution, you might avoid looking like the fools you are.
Kinzinger is a traitor in my opinion . He needs to go