Her remarks came amid Supreme Court rulings hailed by many religious conservatives. Last week, the court struck down a Maine law barring taxpayer money from going to religious schools as part of a state tuition program. The court also overturned Roe v. Wade, which for 49 years held that abortion is constitutionally protected.

In an address to the aforementioned church, Boebert called for the government to be run by “the church”:

The reason we had so many overreaching regulations in our nation is because the church complied. 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. And I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like what they say it does.