He’s Deeply Religious and a Democrat. He Might Be the Next Big Thing in Texas Politics.

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He’s Deeply Religious and a Democrat. He Might Be the Next Big Thing in Texas Politics.
politico.com

James Talarico confounds Fox News hosts, fights the culture wars by quoting scripture, and has fellow Democrats talking about his statewide future.

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The only people that are going to like him are Democrats. The fundamentalist Christians have already stopped caring about actual Christian teachings and only care about the right people being hurt.

I think the last few years have shown us they don't actually care about actual religion.

“The thing that warms my heart the most,” he told me, “is people who say, ‘I’m an atheist, agnostic, or I left the church or I left religion. But this is the kind of Christianity I can believe in.’”

Um no... but it is the kind I can live with.