Advice for Ken Paxton |
Now that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has roundly defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican runoff primary for Cornyn's U.S. Senate seat (Paxton won by 25 percentage points), the real battle begins.
Paxton's opponent on the Democrat Party ticket is James Talarico, a former teacher and member of the Texas House of Representatives who holds a master of divinity from the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Right on cue, leftists who ordinarily despise Republicans and Christians are singing the praises of Cornyn and Talarico.
We shouldn't be surprised. Democrats wax rhapsodic about Republicans when they defect to the Democrat Party, lose an election or die. As for Talarico, he is the Left's idea of a perfect Christian: one who assures them that their every political and personal impulse is A-OK with the Big Guy Upstairs.
Politicians routinely ignore the extent to which their religious faith (such as it is) is inconsistent with their personal behavior or their policy prescriptions. But Talarico is running around the country giving interviews in which he declares his views on government policy to be the truly "Christian" ones.
On Joe Rogan's podcast, for example, Talarico objected to posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms, saying, "I think my concern is for the Muslim kid and the Jewish kid, the Hindu kid, the atheist kid who's sitting in a classroom who now has a poster on the wall forced by the government that says, you know, your religion is inferior or you're not welcome here."
We'll leave aside the question about why Jewish students would be offended by the Torah; Talarico is misstating the purpose of posting the Ten Commandments, using the hypothetical feelings of imaginary children. The Ten Commandments are not posted to shame nonbelievers; they are posted to affirm that the United States........