Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, chair of President Trump's Religious Liberty Commission announced on X yesterday:
Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission. No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue. This is clearly, without question, what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America. This was my decision.
OSV News reported on the aspects of the hearing that led to Boller's ouster, saying in part:
... Prejean Boller, a former Miss California USA, began a tense exchange with witnesses by asking if “speaking out about what many Americans view as a genocide in Gaza should be treated as antisemitic?” ...
Prejean Boller’s line of questioning also included her argument that “Catholics do not embrace Zionism, just so you know. So are all Catholics antisemites?” ...
Prejean Boller, who was wearing a pin that jointly displayed U.S. and Palestinian flags, went on to press witnesses on whether they would consider her an antisemite for not supporting the political state of Israel, which she called “a foreign country.”
Elsewhere in the hearing, Prejean Boller also had a tense exchange with Seth Dillon, CEO of conservative Christian satire website The Babylon Bee. Dillon took aim at conservative media figures who he said have failed to speak out against antisemitism, such as that from podcaster Candace Owens.
When Prejean Boller argued that Owens — who became Catholic in 2024 — was not an antisemite, Dillon replied, “You should look up more of her statements.”...
(See prior related posting.)
