James Talarico is running for Senate in Texas and calling himself a pastor.
Schumer thinks Talarico is the man to flip Texas blue.
Chuck Schumer’s pick for the Texas Senate just hurled this insane insult at God.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
James Talarico’s central pitch to voters is that he’s a white guy and a pastor, which Democrats hope translates to a normal guy with voters.
But now that Talarico is the nominee for the Senate, his record and comments are coming under scrutiny.
And so is the idea that Talarico is actually a man of faith.
Talarico claimed God is “non-binary” and that the Bible supports abortion.
And Talarico also attacked a Texas bill to provide school vouchers to students in failing public schools as an extension of “Christian nationalism” because the vouchers allowed for some children to attend religious schools.
“If you’re not an education policy person, you may have never heard of this, but essentially it’s an effort to take tax dollars out of our public schools, which are underfunded as they are. Texas is 43rd in the nation in per-student education funding. So, it’s taking dollars out of the classroom and giving it to unaccountable private schools. Usually Christian private schools,” Talarico said during a debate in the legislature on the bill
“Again, part of this effort to blur the lines between church and state. The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, made this his top legislative priority for the year last year,” Talarico added.
Talarico claimed that allowing students to better their educational opportunities was “un-American” and “un-Christian.”
“This bill, to me, is not only unconstitutional, it’s not only un-American, but I think it is also deeply un-Christian,” Talarico added.
Talarico also attacked a bill mandating that Texas classrooms display the Ten Commandments as doing “violence” to Christianity and being anti-Semitic.
“It does violence to both Christianity and Judaism. There are way more than Ten Commandments in the Jewish tradition—613 mitzvot—and Christianity has its own rich diversity of interpretations. This bill picks and chooses one version, promotes it in public schools, and ignores the beautiful diversity of both faiths. It has no historical basis in American history as a mandate for public education,” Talarico stated.
Talarico – who claimed God is non-binary and that the Bible supports abortion – then went on to say that he was more religious than America’s Founding Fathers.
“And let’s talk about the Founding Fathers—I am a lot more religious than some of our Founding Fathers,” Talarico exclaimed.
Republicans believe that if enough Texas voters become aware of Talarico’s past comments and record, he will become an unacceptable choice once they enter the voting booth.
