After James Talarico won the Democratic primary for Senate in Texas, WorldNetDaily was quick to lash out at him. Jerry Newcombe groused in a March 10 column:
A Texas member of the state House of Representatives from a liberal district in Austin catapulted to national fame last week. Why? He beat outspoken Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary as a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
After this victory, James Talarico, said, “We are not just trying to win an election. We are trying to fundamentally change our politics. And it’s working.”
What makes this politician of interest is that in the name of religion, he makes a lot of radical claims. He refers to the Bible as if it supports things that it clearly opposes. One might ask, “What translation is he reading?”
Newcombe went on to rage that Talarico doesn’t hate transgender people like he does and has claimed that God is nonbinary:
The Bible notes that the Creator has made us in His image, male and female. Throughout the Scriptures, God uses “He,” “Him,” and “His” in His self-revelation. But He’s supposedly some “nonbinary” entity.
Talarico’s views on life and abortion are also quite radical. He said, “The Virgin Mary consenting to the angel Gabriel’s message suggests that the Bible is pro-choice, and that a woman’s consent is an inextricable part of the creation process.”
In 2022, he wrote a letter to President Biden, pleading the cause of abortion. He complained that “an anti-choice minority has taken advantage of the undemocratic loopholes in our political system to impose their radical program on our country. This minority is threatening our most basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
[…]The founders expected us to be self-governed through religious influence (on a voluntary basis). John Adams famously declared, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
But it would seem to me that politicians like Talarico are using religious words to mask a very secular agenda. An undermined Bible is just as meaningless as no Bible. Yet our nation was built on the Bible.
Newcombe concluded by huffing: “If the likes of Texas State Rep. James Talarico had their way, we would have no clue what is right and what is wrong – even if reading the same book.” He didn’t explain what version of the Bible he’s reading that gives him such a dogmatic view of the alleged behavior of others.