Carrie Prejean Boller - Ousted from Religious Liberty Commission. That is Good.

In 2007, Carrie Prejean (pronounced pra-SHAWN), an evangelical Christian, competed in the Miss California pageant. In the 2008 competition, she was the runner up. In 2009, she won the title of Miss California.

Later in 2009, she competed in the Miss USA pageant, and boldly stood her ground when asked an intentional “gotcha” type question by Perez Hilton, a homosexual columnist and a judge at the event. Hilton later wrote, "She lost it because of that question. She was definitely the front-runner before that.” Honorably, Prejean refused to abandon her Christian faith in order to assuage the judges’ anti-Christian bias, and thus win the competition by compromising. 

What did she say that was so controversial? She said that she believed marriage was defined as one man-one woman. She did not, as Perez Hilton had hoped, support same sex (so called) "marriage."
 
The avalanche of hate towards her was massive. It became a national story. She was threatened. Her pastor, Miles McPherson of The Rock Church in San Diego, was a friend of mine. Through him, I invited Carrie to speak at Skyline Church, where I was then pastoring. On one occasion (and I cannot recall the background to this), another man and I drove Carrie and her mother to some meeting, being with them for protective reasons. We respected her highly.

On June 26, 2009, I posted on Facebook how proud we were of her. 
 
In 2010, she married NFL player Kyle Boller, and in 2025 she was appointed to President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, a very high honor. I was in the Rose Garden at the White House May 1, 2025, when Prejean and the other members of this important commission were announced. I was proud of her appointment. Until… Until… Monday, Feb 9, 2026, just three days ago.

On February 9, the Religious Liberty Commission had one of their regular meetings at the Museum of the Bible. We had been in Washington, DC the previous week, and even pondered possibly staying over the weekend to attend the hearing, but instead, opted to come home to San Diego.

During the Monday proceedings, I began getting texts from Well Versed Representative Holly Sorell in the audience, reporting that Carrie Prejean Boller seemed to be belligerent and proceeded to dominate the discussion. She demonstrated an argumentative spirit.
 
I later watched the replays and was shocked at Prejean’s subtle – or maybe not so subtle – antisemitism. She claims she is not antisemitic, but that she is an anti-Zionist. She holds the indefensible position that you can be anti-Zionist while not being antisemitic. This is an irrational and intellectually indefensible claim.

Let’s review what Zionism is. The “father of Zionism” is Theodor Herzl (1860-1904). A Zionist is one who believes that the Jews (1) have a right to exist, (2) have a right to have a homeland, (3) have a right to gather there, and (4) have a right to defend themselves. Period. That is it.

Apparently Carrie illogically believes that she is not antisemitic, while believing that the Jews do not have a right to exist, have a homeland, a right to gather in that homeland, and have no right to defend themselves.

The Carrie I once knew was convictional, but a gracious woman. That Carrie was absent on Monday. What appeared was a woman who had been schooled in the vitriol of Candace Owens. It had “Candace overtones” to it. Carrie was reading her questions off of her phone, prompting some to wonder if Candace was texting questions to her and goading Carrie on. In her comments, Carrie referred to Candace as well. 
 
It seemed that Carrie wanted to pounce whenever she could. She argued. Not once, but ongoing. She attempted to entrap and humiliate. Her tone was stunning. I was quite shocked by her domineering style. 
 
In addition, she served notice on several occasions that she was now a Catholic. She converted to Catholicism in 2025. It has been said that there is nothing quite like the unregulated zeal of a new convert, and Carrie demonstrated that. She stated that Catholics are not Zionists and do not see Israel as having any eschatological significance. (She needed to be challenged that the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics are not monolithic, as demonstrated by Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi’s violation of the Catholic position on abortion.)
 
Carrie accused Israel of killing thousands of children, regurgitating the worn-out, debunked claim of Hamas. And she even semi-scolded one of the speakers, wanting to make sure he was not “Islamophobic.” Our once brave evangelical beauty pageant winner has somehow morphed seemingly into a Jew-denigrating, Hamas-affirming, defender of Islam.

(Note: For the record, “Islamic terrorists have carried out more than 48,934 deadly attacks since 9/11”- See here) 

How did Carrie become like this? I do not know. I can only speculate. It appears that she may have become bewitched by the same demonic spirit that has taken Candace Owens. This is profoundly sad. Two very talented women, but both so misguided. 
 
The real irony is that the main purpose of Monday’s event was to discuss the rise of offensive antisemitism. Prejean, showing a lack of biblical truth, historical reality and situational awareness, turned it into an opportunity to demonstrate exactly what the Commission was to stand against. She outed herself as “Exhibit A” for antisemitism. It was a sad and embarrassing moment. 
 
In fact, Carrie’s domineering nature was so pronounced that Religious Liberty Commission Chairman Dan Patrick, the Lt. Governor of Texas, finally had to gavel her down.

After the event was over, in her online texts, she played victim, but also dared them to fire her. So, they did.

Dan Patrick wisely made that very decision and posted this on X:

What he did was right. 
 
Fox news is reporting the following, citing the verbal flame-thrower Candace Owens’ predictable responses: Read Here.

CONCLUSION:
Pray for Carrie. Pray for her to repent of her wrongful thinking.

Pray for Carrie to realize that it was the Jews who brought us (her included) the Torah, the Teaching, the Prophets, the Psalms, and the entire Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). It was the Jews who brought us the Messiah, and all of the New Testament (except the book of Luke).

Jesus was a Jew. So were his original followers. The church began with Jews. The Jewish faith provides the very foundations of all that we, as Christians, believe. Pray that Carrie become discerning, learning that we are profoundly indebted to the Jews.

What about her view of Israel? Pray for that too.
 
Israel was promised to Abraham and his descendants. “From the Tigris to the Nile” would be 300,000 square miles. That is what God promised to them. Under King David, they controlled approximately 200,000 square miles. How much does Israel have today? A tiny 8,000 square miles. So according to God’s Word, they deserve a lot more land, not less. 
 
Almost all of the Old Testament is set in Israel. From 1400 BC on, the Israelites were in Israel, until the Exile, then returned until the destruction of 70 AD (although some Jews were in Israel throughout the centuries that followed). From 1000 BC until 70 AD, the Jews lived in present day Jerusalem. Thus most of Jewish history is tied to the land, their land, called Israel.

Jesus was born in Israel. He taught and traveled in Israel. He was crucified for our sins in Jerusalem. He was in the grave three days in Jerusalem. He resurrected in Jerusalem. His post resurrection appearances were in and around Jerusalem. He ascended to heaven from Jerusalem. He will descend from heaven to Jerusalem someday. He will rule from Jerusalem. The nations will someday stream to Jerusalem.

Carrie even repeated the old lie that “the Jews killed Jesus”. They did not. In fact, the Roman soldiers did not kill Jesus either.

My sins and your sins – and yes, even Carrie’s sins – are what killed Jesus. He died for our sins. Jesus clearly said that no man could take His life, but rather that He laid it down Himself.

Pray that Carrie and Candace – oh yes, and Tucker too – all repent, see the truth, and drop their antisemitic rants. (Note: It is reported that Tucker is scheduled to interview Ambassador Mike Huckabee - Read here Now that will be interesting.)
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

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