Carrie Prejean Boller was ejected from a religious liberty commission established by the White House to hold hearings on contemporary religious liberty issues. In the interview below, Prejean states that Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick and female pastor Paula White combined to get her tossed from the commission.
Last year, Trump established a Religious Liberty Commission that included some people we think very highly of, including Dr. Ben Carson and religious liberty attorney Kelly Shackelford.
Also on the committee was Carrie Prejean Boller, who became famous in 2009 as a contestant in Donald Trump’s Miss USA Pageant when she stated that she believed that marriage was between a man and a woman:
“I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that's how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman.”
This seems like a rather anodyne answer, but homosexual activist Perez Hilton, who asked the question, stated, “She gave an awful, awful answer that alienated so many people.” Hilton, who real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., also told ABC News that Prejean lost the contest because of how she answered the question.
Prejean stated that she believes that her answer cost her the crown, writing:
I was being dared—in front of the entire world—to give a candid answer to a serious question. I knew if I told the truth, I would lose all that I was competing for: the crown, the luxury apartment in New York City, the large salary—everything that went with the Miss USA title. I also knew, or suspected, that I was the front runner, and if I gritted my teeth and gave the politically correct answer, I could be Miss USA.
Carrie Prejean showed tremendous courage and integrity in that high-stakes situation, and won the friendship of Donald Trump, who appointed her, last May 25th, to his Religious Liberty Commission.
But she is outspokenly opposed to Christian Zionism, and this put her at odds with some of the evangelicals on the commission, particularly Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, and pastor Paula White.
Dan Patrick is one of those Texas RINOs who talks a good game, but is not really very conservative. There are a great many of his type in Texas politics, which is why Texas, despite having very conservative voters, always ends up with purple government, at best. Paula Furr Knight White Cain is a thrice-married female pastor (she is currently married to Jonathan Cain, keyboardist for the band “Journey”) who speaks in tongues, casts out demons, and claims to be Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor.
At a hearing last month, Carrie Prejean Boller questioned witnesses about the differences between anti-Zionism and antisemitism during a commission hearing on antisemitism. She asked Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, “Catholics do not embrace Zionism, just so you know. So are all Catholics antisemites? She also asked witnesses who were testifying about their experiences on college campuses after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, “are you willing to condemn what Israel has done in Gaza?"
When asked by Jewish journalist Yair Rosenberg about antisemitic conspiracy theories promoted by Candace Owens, Prejean said “I watched her show, and I have never heard anything out of her mouth that is anti-Semitic. So I'm not gonna make a statement on something that I haven't heard the full context of.
The treatment of Carrie Prejean Boller does tend to show that Christian Zionism is the quasi-official theology of the Trump administration. If you question the Jewish/Neo-con narrative that America should fight Israel’s batlles, and Israel has done nothing wrong in Gaza, you will find yourself persona non grata in the Trump White House.
Carrie Prejean Boller is a recent convert to Catholicism. One of the problems with Christian Zionism is that its overwhelming acceptance and influence in conservative American evangelical circles, particularly its tendency to excuse everything Israel does, is causing a lot of younger evangelicals to leave their denominations and join either the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church.
The below interview by Tucker Carlson of Carrie Prejean Boller is excellent and very interesting. Disclaimer: I do not agree with all of Tucker Carlson’s positions, nor with all of his choices regarding who to interview, nor is the posting of this interview an endorsement of everything Tucker Carlson or Carrie Prejean Boller have ever said (although they are both right about Christian Zionism).