By What Authority? |
A Texas member of the state House of Representatives from the liberal district of Austin catapulted to national fame last week. Why? He beat outspoken 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?”
Not that he’s completely unique in this sense. There are liberal denominations, including the one he belongs to — the United Presbyterian Church (USA) — that have largely abandoned much of the plain reading of Scripture. Talarico is working toward a Master of Divinity degree at the denomination's Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Because of his expressed religiosity, he is perceived as possibly winning over professing Christians in the Lone Star State.
But is he really just “the left’s Trojan horse,” to use a phrase from Peter Cordi? Writing in the Washington Examiner, Cordi notes, “State Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the Texas Senate race, was sold to voters as an ‘electable’........