Sean Feucht, a Christian worship leader, has responded to criticism by an Idaho newspaper that his upcoming concert in Boise, ID, was “dangerous.” Feucht, along with his group Hold the Line and Turning Point USA (TPUSA), are leading a 50-state worship tour at all state capitols. In an op-ed of the Idaho Statesmen, the editorial board lamented that Feucht and TPUSA were trying to “inject their brand of Christianity into government.” The editorial board wrote that “Feucht and his group are playing on the same, tired, worn-out, BS, far-right ‘fears’ that evildoers on the Left are coming for your children, through the schools, through the libraries, at Pride festivals and drag shows,” and that group claims “Anyone who opposes their dangerous Christian nationalism are Satanists and evildoers.” 

The op-ed referenced letters by area faith leaders who were concerned by Feucht’s “anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments” and identification as a “Christian nationalist.” “It is unbiblical and un-American to tell Christians that our faith disqualifies us from participating in this great democracy,” Feucht, a former worship leader from Bethel Church, told The Christian Post. “How can Christians complain and whine about how dark, corrupt and crooked the political realm is if we aren’t bringing the light and hope of Jesus to it? What laws are there outside of the biblical moral law? What other standard is there to base the laws of a nation upon?” Although the op-ed did affirm Feucht’s right to free speech, it insisted he ought to keep his religious beliefs to himself. “The danger comes when these groups impose their religious views on others and inject church into the state through the power of government, as we’ve already seen in Idaho through the most restrictive abortion ban in the country, attempts to put a bounty on libraries and bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. No one is telling these groups to abandon their religious beliefs. We’re just telling them to keep their religion in their church and out of our government.”

Feucht responded with a tweet saying, “Beware! Christian kids singing with flags! Hurry up and ban flag-waving DANGEROUS Christian kids from the capitol before someone gets hurt!” Twelve thousand people ended up attending the Boise event, with reports of a counter-protest being arranged by Satan Idaho and Idaho Abortion Rights. Responding to the counter-protesters, Feucht wrote, “When you’re doing something BIG for the kingdom of God, the opposition is LITERALLY Satan. The good news is that GOD WINS.” Writing on his Substack, Feucht also acknowledged the Statesmen’s Constitutional right to its critique. “What they wrote is not so much a critique of the Let Us Worship Movement as it was a shameless plug for the LGBTQ agenda,” he added. “To stand on the Bible is dangerous in the year 2023, especially when that truth conflicts with the LGTBQ agenda.”

Feucht shared on his Substack that the Let Us Worship movement, of which this rally was a part, began in 2020 when California locked down all places of worship during the COVID-19 pandemic. “America needs revival because the status quo isn’t working,” he wrote. “Kids are gripped by anxiety, marriages are failing at record rates, drug addiction claims lives in all areas of society, and it’s only getting worse. In America, there is no shortage of hurt and not enough evidence of healing. We see people healed and restored ALL THE TIME, and we want to point people to the ONLY ONE who heals and restores.”