Friday, February 20, 2026

Politician James Talarico: A Confused "Christian"

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"God requires you to agree with Democrats," Democrats announce.

James Dell Talarico is an American politician, Presbyterian seminarian, and former public school teacher serving since 2018 as a member of the Texas House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, Talarico has been called a "rising star" among Texas Democrats.

He is also a confused "Christian."

Be informed, not misled.

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Chris Bray, writing for The Federalist, says in response to Talarico, "I particularly enjoy the application of the '50 years' frame to this argument, which must mean that all Christians passionately supported abortion and gay marriage just 51 years ago."

He makes the point that Talarico is not the only politician trying to use words to confuse the uninformed, but that Kentucky Governor Beshear is doing the same thing.

He says, "The apparent solution is for leftists to apply the language of faith to political impediments caused by faith, guessing that they can defeat beliefs with slogans and postures: If you don’t want to trans your kids, what if we told you that God says to trans your kids? What if we told you that love is Biblical, and abortions and sex-change treatments are love, so abortions and sex-change treatments are Biblical? Problem solved, right? If people prefer X, but you want them to choose Not X, then you just tell them that Not X is X, and then they choose Not X because you’ve declaratively transformed Not X into X. We gilded the trans thing with some God words, so now the trans thing is a God thing."

I'm reminded of the words of the prophet Isaiah (5:20): "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"

This verse is a stern warning against the moral perversion of reversing values.

  • Moral Confusion: The verse condemns deliberately confusing or swapping moral standards, such as labeling sinful behavior as righteous, or vice versa.
  • "Woe" (Judgment): The proclamation of "woe" indicates divine judgment upon those who pervert truth and righteousness, a common theme in this chapter regarding Israel's moral decay.
  • Context in Isaiah 5: This passage is part of a series of warnings to those who reject God's law, specifically targeting people who are "wise in their own eyes" and justify wickedness.
  • Relevance: It is often cited as a warning against societal trends where absolute truth is denied, and evil behavior is celebrated as good. 

Governor Beshear seems to have forgotten Isaiah's words. He used this reversing values maneuver to defend sex-change treatments for minors, arguing that "his faith tells him to love."

Beshear told The View he uses Christianity to defend transgender surgeries for minors: "When I've taken actions, like vetoing the nastiest piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation that came through my state, I said my faith teaches me that all children are children of God."

Joshua Monnington writes in the Federalist that Democrats are using scripture to justify their political ideology.

"Conveniently for Democrats, fake jesus is flexible: On the one hand he’s holding hell over the heads of those enforcing immigration laws — even when federal enforcement of those laws protects vulnerable women and children from rapists and child abusers. On the other hand, he never says boo to anyone about anything when it comes to something like transing the kids."

Takeaway

Monnington continues:

The Golden Rule, for the record, is actually “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” But neither the Golden Rule nor the command to “love your neighbor as yourself” creates a moral imperative to give people whatever they want carte blanche, as Beshear suggests. Jesus explains the Golden Rule immediately after telling His disciples to ask for good gifts because their heavenly Father will give them. Regardless of what Democrats think, the context shows that He wasn’t talking about handing out fentanyl and elective mastectomies.

Similarly, the Good Samaritan “bound up … the wounds” of the waylaid Jericho-bound man — he didn’t further mutilate him or offer him MAID. The Samaritan — to the surprise of Jesus’ listeners — acted more righteously than the drive-by priest and the Levite, but the point of the story isn’t his immigration status or LGBT rights or whether all 8 billion “neighbors” should have automatic rights to enter the U.S. whenever they please. Rather, the parable of the Good Samaritan is Jesus’ answer to a self-righteous, eternal-life-seeking lawyer (think Old Testament law) who wanted “to justify himself.”

Proverbs 17:15 says, "He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord."

The last part of this verse tells us exactly how Jesus feels about this type of attitude and choices. We see it plainly stated that He counts both actions as an abomination. That means to cause disgust. I would think that none of us would want Jesus looking at us in disgust, so let's be careful not only how we live but also to whom we support and stand up for. We are known not only by the company we keep but also by those whom we help to further their agenda.

Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Truthful. Be Prayerful.

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