Opinion | What Boebert gets wrong about church and state
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, foreground, speaks to supporters at Wearhouse 25 during a party to kick off her re-election bid for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District seat, Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in Grand Junction, Colo.You can say I came out of the womb a Baptist preacher. In fact, I’m Baptist born, Baptist bred, and when I die, I’ll be Baptist dead. At the tender age of 9, I was baptized and confessed my faith in Christ.
Because she has aligned herself with the Christian right I was not surprised by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s recent comments to a church in Basalt, Colorado. For me, her most disturbing comments include “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.
Boebert’s attempt at being an armchair First Amendment scholar and theologian is anti-democratic, pandering, and contrary to American Christianity’s tradition of upholding the separation of church and state. Jefferson goes on to reiterate the establishment clause of the First Amendment was written for this very purpose. As recent as 2000, Article XVIII of the Baptist Faith and Message warned “The church should not resort to civil power to carry on its work.” If the government can control your god, then it is no small step for the government to control every aspect of your life.
To be frank, what Boebert and others of her ilk are proposing starts and ends with religious coercion. From there it is neither a long nor difficult journey to religious persecution.
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