A video of Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert has gone viral as she argues against the separation of church and state.
In a video that has now been viewed over 770,000 times on Twitter, Boebert argued the church should be advising the government.
Boebert made these comments while speaking to a Sunday crowd of people at the Cornerstone Christian Center in Basalt, according to a report by The Denver Post.
She went on to dismiss the idea that this was not what the founding fathers of America wanted.
“The reason we had so many overreaching regulations in our nation is because the church complied,” Boebert said.
“The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not meant 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.”
She then received a round of applause from the congregation.
The letter that Boebert refers to was written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists in 1802 where he calls for the separation of church and state.