James Talarico holds a slight lead over Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race.
A video of James Talarico’s pastor surfaced.
And Jim Rigby said something about religion on camera that will leave Texas Christians stunned.
As American Patriot Daily reports:
Talarico is attempting to present himself to Texas voters as a normal white guy Christian and not as some woke weirdo.
Talarico was already under fire for being a fraud, as he previously claimed God was nonbinary and that the Bible supported abortion.
Talarico tried to distance himself from these insults to Christianity by claiming his comments “missed the mark.
But a shocking new video showed that Talarico grew up in a leftist Church that subverted the Bible and Jesus’ teachings.
Talarico’s described Rev. Jim Rigby, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Austin, as his pastor and mentor.
“He is my pastor in every sense of the word,” Talarico declared, adding that Rigby and his grandfather were two of the biggest influences on me as a Christian, as a human being.”
Rigby baptized Talarico and officiated his parents’ wedding.
A new video shows Rigby celebrating his Church as one for atheists and nonbelievers.
“Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion,” Rigby is seen saying.
Rigby added that his so-called “church” supports abortion and the homosexual political agenda.
“I’ve been on trial within the denomination for LGBT stuff, abortion, and non-theist… We had an atheist join the church, but that’s not a big deal here,” Rigby added.
The video also showed a Reverend Babs Miller saying, “I don’t have a need for a God,” and that she believes there is “something out there that holds all this together,” but that “she doesn’t see it as a God.”
“We are not a worshipping church,” Miller went on to say.
Rigby also describes the “inclusive Bible” the Church gives to new members that doesn’t use male pronouns for God.
The video also shows Rigby calling the word of God “stupid stuff.”
“It’s good on the gender stuff,” Rigby states. “The more, like, metaphysical stuff, it’s not a very good translation, if that makes sense. I think it’s really important to have a good translation so you can let go of the stupid stuff.”
“And Martha’s here to give Larry his Inclusive Bible,” Rigby says to an unidentified woman in the video. “It’s the Bible that we use at this church.”
The woman explains that this Bible was “rewritten” to reject the King James Bible as part of the patriarchy.
“It’s been rewritten so that there is only inclusive language and that it doesn’t use the gender-fueled language that the King James Version uses,” the woman is seen saying.
NEW: James Talarico’s longtime spiritual mentor, Rev. Jim Rigby, says his church provides copies of the “Inclusive Bible” to new members.
The “Inclusive Bible” strips the Bible of “gendered language.” It refuses to call Jesus the Son of God and describes traditional… pic.twitter.com/R6Nf4SPisg
— Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) September 17, 2026
Texas is a ruby red state.
And this election will come down to whether voters think Talarico is just too far outside of the mainstream.
