Controversial Prayer by James Talarico Resurfaces
A video from 2021 featuring Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico has resurfaced. In this video, he delivers a peculiar prayer on the House floor, mentioning Hinduism, Islam, and various other faiths as he seeks to recognize the one true God and His Son, Jesus, concluding with the phrase “all your many names.”
Talarico begins with, “Let us pray, Holy Mystery, you have many names,” suggesting a universal approach to the divine, often referring to what he calls the Great Me.
“The Torah calls you Creator. The Koran calls you Peace. The Gita calls you Destroyer. Dharma calls you Truth, and the First Epistle of John offers perhaps the most beautiful name of all, Love,” he continues, citing texts beyond the Bible.
He describes God as “the strange love that unites all things,” tracing this love from the cosmic event of the Big Bang to the act of creation itself, and concluding that it is the love from which we emerged and to which we’ll eventually return.
“In my faith, you expressed yourself through a barefoot rabbi who personified perfect love, a crucified carpenter who gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor. You cannot love God without also loving your neighbor. Help us to honor not just the name of Jesus but the way of Jesus,” he states, before citing various mandates typically associated with leftist agendas, including calls to release prisoners and accept undocumented immigrants.
“Help liberate the oppressed, feed the hungry, house the homeless, heal the sick, free the prisoners, welcome the stranger, forgive your enemies, and above all protect your creation,” he elaborates.
Talarico emphasizes, “God’s word is love. Let us not simply hear your word but live it out in our families, communities, and this chamber—not only in prayer but in policy, not just in personal love but in political love. Democracy is more than a constitution; it’s a covenant,” urging the “sacred mystery” to “open our hearts, open our hearts, open our hands so we can build a new world from the old one.”
He envisions a “world that is more just, more free, more whole, more loved by you,” and notably prays not just in Jesus’ name but “in all your many names.”
This isn’t the first time Talarico has stirred controversy. Recently, as reported by Breitbart News, he described God as non-binary without elaborating, and he referred to women as “neighbors with wombs.”
