No 'Right to Hijack': Christian Ousted from Trump Faith Panel over Anti-Zionist Remarks

Joseph MacKinnon : Feb 23, 2026
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[TheBlaze.com] The chair of President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission announced on Wednesday that he has removed a Christian member from the group after she made anti-Zionist comments at a hearing earlier this week. During the commission's fifth hearing on Monday, Carrie Prejean Boller—a recent convert to Catholicism who was stripped of her Miss California USA Crown in 2009 after criticizing gay "marriage"—repeatedly asked whether anti-Zionism is necessarily anti-Semitic; stated that "Catholics don't embrace Zionism"; asked a panelist whether he would "condemn what Israel has done in Gaza"; and questioned whether the modern state of Israel is one and the same as the Biblical Israel... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via SupremeCourt.gov)