FALSE PROPHET
Lauren Boebert
U.S. Representative, Colorado
Now one of MAGA’s biggest champions on Capitol Hill, Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) originally gained notoriety as a gun-rights activist and, in 2023, co-sponsored a bill to designate AR-15s as the National Gun of the United States.
Boebert is a big proponent of the Big Lie, telling people on January 5th, 2021, that the 6th would be Republicans' “1776 moment.” Boebert has said that she’s “tired of this separation of church and state junk,” echoing fellow False Prophet David Barton’s lie that the separation of church and state is not what the Founding Fathers intended. She is also in favor of displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools, voicing support for the 2024 Louisiana bill to do so: “This is something we need all throughout our nation … because we need morals back in our nation."
In 2023, Boebert held a worship service alongside fellow False Prophet Sean Feucht in the Capitol Rotunda as part of Feucht’s “Kingdom in the Capital” tour conducted in partnership with Turning Point USA, a Christian-nationalist activist group led by False Prophet Charlie Kirk.
She’s also gained attention for Islamophobic and antisemitic comments. In 2021, referring to Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of only three Muslims in Congress, Boebert said: "it's the Jihad Squad ... She doesn't have a backpack, she wasn't dropping it and running so we're good.”
Boebert’s Christian Nationalist Rhetoric
Openly advocated for a theocracy at a religious service, saying: “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it. I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution.”
Said at a Truth and Liberty Coalition conference: “God is on our side. The blood has been applied…We are going straight into victory. You are all more than conquerors through God, through Christ who strengthens you every step of the way…It’s time for us to position ourselves and rise up and take our place in Christ and influence this nation as we were called to do,”
Blamed the school shooting in Uvalde, TX on the “godlessness that is here overtaking America”
Believes there “have been two nations that have been created to glorify God” – Israel, and the United States of America, and that the USA “will glorify God.”
Has cheered on QAnon: “Everything I’ve heard of Q, I hope that this is real because it only means America is getting stronger and better.”
Has appeared on Christian nationalist movement leader and fellow False Prophet Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council’s show ‘Washington Watch’ as well as fellow False Prophet Steve Bannon’s show ‘War Room’
Boebert’s Christian Nationalist Policy Positions
Voted in Congress on January 6, 2021, to overturn the 2020 electoral college results
Strong opponent of COVID-19 safety measures and often spreads disinformation about the virus and treatments
Has harmful anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion access views
Supports eliminating the Department of Education, naming eliminating Critical Race Theory as a priority
Is influenced by fellow False Prophet David Barton’s pseudo-academic teachings against the separation of church and state, and spoke at the same Truth & Liberty Coalition Conference as Barton in September 2022.
As of September 2022, holds a 100% score from fellow False Prophet Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council (designated an anti-LGBTQ “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center) for opposing voting rights, LGBTQ equality, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization, among other bills.
Has supported similar stolen-election conspiracy theories and lies as spread by fellow False Prophets and Christian-nationalist movement leaders Rev. Franklin Graham, General Michael Flynn, Bishop Joseph Strickland, strategist Steve Bannon, and Pastor Tony Perkins.