James Talarico’s CNN Town Hall Challenges His Views on God and Abortion
James Talarico is hoping to present himself as a reasonable candidate to Texas voters. However, during a recent CNN town hall, he encountered some tough questions about his past statements regarding God and abortion, which many found to be quite extreme.
Sara Gonzales, a host on BlazeTV, remarked on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” that Talarico “could not help exposing himself for the radical leftist lunatic that he has always been.” She expressed surprise that the audience members were allowed to confront him directly. One significant moment occurred when a Catholic Texan fact-checked Talarico after he stated that the Bible is silent on the issue of abortion.
During the debate, Talarico responded to his opponent by saying, “The Bible is silent on the issue of abortion. It means you and I both have to look at different Scriptures to try to come to a conclusion.” This prompted a quick rebuttal from the opponent, a Catholic woman, who countered, “The Bible is not silent on abortion. There is the Ten Commandments: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ And as Catholics, we take great insult, I guess, sometimes when it’s described that way.”
Gonzales couldn’t help but laugh at Talarico’s reaction, noting his face seemed shocked by the response.
This was not the first time Talarico’s public statements had come under scrutiny. Previously, he made comments suggesting that God is “nonbinary,” a claim he later dismissed as merely provocative. “When I said that, I was being provocative. And I want to admit that and come clean about that,” he explained during the town hall.
Yet, Gonzales couldn’t shake the feeling that Talarico’s comments were more than just an attempt at provocation. “The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines in Genesis, use two different Hebrew words to describe God. One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity. The second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit,” Talarico had asserted in the past, adding, “God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary.”
To Gonzales, this didn’t sound like an offhand comment; rather, it felt like a sincere expression of Talarico’s beliefs.
