I’ve written about James “Howdy Doody” Talarico previously, and I tried, honestly, I tried, to resist jumping on the dump on Doody band wagon, but he wore me down. Doody said one too many dumb things and broke my resistance. In addition to the dumb stuff, there is also all his dissembling. There is no truth in the boy-man. Talarico does not apprehend truth. He does not embrace truth. And consequently, he can’t speak truth.
In a November 1, 2024, social media post in support of the candidacies of two losers, Kamala Harris and Collin Allred, Talarico posted a photo of himself accompanied by these ironic and dissembling words:
The freedom to read
The freedom to marry
The freedom to choose
That should tell every Republican in Texas all they need to know about Talarico, and it’s more than sufficient to justify voting for Ken Paxton no matter whom they preferred in the primary runoff.
Talarico claims to be a Christian and yet affirms a non-existent moral right of women to off their offspring. He abuses Scripture in utterly nonsensical, ahistorical ways to contrive a pseudo-biblical defense of human slaughter.
In contrast to his heretical defense of feticide—couched all viper-like in the sophistry of “choice” and “care”—apologetics professor and author Nancy Pearcey reveals what Talarico conceals—or doesn’t know:
[I]t is true that there are no explicit verses against [abortion].
That’s because during the biblical era, the Jews did not think abortion was acceptable and therefore there was no need to outlaw it. They regarded abortion as a form of murder; thus laws against murder were sufficient.
By the time of the early church, however, Christians did have to take a stand. In Greco-Roman culture both abortion and infanticide were widely accepted and practiced. Thus it is remarkable how strongly and uniformly the church fathers stood against both practices.
The Didache, an early Christian text (AD 50–120) says, “Do not murder a child by abortion, nor kill it at birth.”
The second-century Epistle of Barnabas says, “You shall not slay a child by abortion.”
Justin Martyr wrote, “We have been taught that it is wicked to expose even newly born children … [for] we would then be murderers.”
Athenagoras wrote, “We say that women who use drugs to bring on an abortion commit murder . . . [for we] regard the very foetus in the womb as a created being, and therefore an object of God’s care.”
In the early third century, Tertullian wrote, “It does not matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. In both instances, destruction is murder.”
In the fourth century, Basil of Caesarea wrote, “A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder.”
John Chrysostom asked, “Why do you abuse the gift of God . . . and make the chamber of procreation a chamber for murder?”
Jerome called abortion “the murder of an unborn child.”
Augustine warned against the terrible crime of “the murder of an unborn child.”
The historical record of Christianity is impressive for its uniform opposition to abortion. The early Christians were not being “conservative” in the sense of following the lead of their culture. Instead, they were radical, even countercultural.”
Talarico asserts in defiance of Scripture that there are six biological sexes. In a floor debate on HB 229, a bill to define biological sex scientifically which he opposed, Talarico used his “favorite” book of the Bible, Genesis, to attack those who supported the bill, saying they were bullying, hurting, and picking on powerless people. Talarico was “disgusted” by those who base the definition of sex on science and accused those who believe that God made man male and female of “doing violence” to Scripture.
Nothing from Talarico on the metaphorical and literal “violence” done to girls and women by the denial of their existence qua females and their intrinsic rights by “trans” liars and their flacks.
Despite Talarico’s tacit insult, no Republican opposes the “freedom to read.” What Republicans support are boundaries for what minors should read. Presumably, Talarico too has boundaries regarding what minor children should read. If, however, he doesn’t, he should be nowhere near children.
Leftists have arrogated to themselves the right to circumscribe what children may read. They decide what books will be published, bowdlerized, purchased, banned, and taught.
When has anyone seen a picture book that depicts the idea that children need and deserve both a mother and father? When has anyone seen books for minors that depict the harm caused to children who are denied either a mother or father when purchased by homosexual couples? When has anyone seen in a public school library a picture book with the theme that God created marriage as a union of one man and one woman only? When has anyone seen a Young Adult novel about a young woman grieving over the surgical removal of her breasts by grifters who treated her mental health issues as a biological/anatomical problem?
Heretical seminarian Talarico attends a Presbyterian Church U.S.A. church. The PCUSA is a notoriously leftist denomination, and his church is no exception. Daily Wire exposed the foul library in Talarico’s Austin, Texas church where children can access books only Satan and his minions could love:
[C]hildren have access to a library stocked with “banned books” that promote ideas rejected by most Christians, including books that contain descriptions of anal rape, incest, and oral sex. …
Books found in the St. Andrew’s catalog include the book “Gender Queer,” which includes illustrations of oral sex and masturbation, and the book “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” which discusses anal rape and incest.
“This Book Is Gay,” has a chapter on the “ins and outs of gay sex,” while the book “Becoming Nicole” tells the story of a gender-confused teen boy who identifies as girl with the support of his family. In “The Courage to Be Queer,” the author claims that “God is queer.”
Other books in the church catalog include “This Book is Gay,” “Trans Kids, Our Kids: Stories and Resources from the Frontlines of the Movement for Transgender Youth,” “Called OUT: The Voices and Gifts of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Presbyterians,” [and] “The Courage to Be Queer.”
Scripture is clear in both the Old and New Testaments that God prohibits crossdressing and abhors homoerotic activity. Heretic Talarico affirms both.
Talarico dissembles again when referring to a “freedom to marry.” He’s not actually referring to a right to marry. All citizens have always had the freedom to marry as long as they complied with government regulations regarding sex of partners, blood relationship to partner, age of partner, and number of partners.
Rather, Talarico is referring to the unilateral privilege demanded by culturally powerful homosexuals and their apparatchiks to redefine in law what marriage is by jettisoning the foundational constituent feature of marriage: biological sex.
Does Talarico support the freedom of people to marry multiple people? What about the freedom of people to marry siblings or minors? After all, love is love.
Here’s what Democrats like Talarico refuse to acknowledge: marriage is something. It has a nature. Humans don’t create marriage. They recognize and regulate a specific kind of union that exists and that constitutes the natural way humans procreate. That is the state’s interest in marriage.
The state has no more interest in affirming “love” between two (or five) people than it does in affirming platonic love between pals. The state is interested in regulating the type of union that naturally produces children who have inherent needs and rights.
A civilization that fails to protect marriage, children, women, and the unborn will slowly die.
Talarico took dissembling to new lows in his recent vegan denials.
In 2022, mask-wearing Talarico clumsily virtue-signaled about his vegan campaign for the Texas State House:
[W]e have …heard more and more issues of animal welfare … not just because it’s the right thing to do and the moral thing to do, but also it’s … necessary to fight climate change. It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in all aspects of society. And so, I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign. So, we … are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.
Today in a rough and tumble Senate race in a carnivorous state, Talarico bristles—well, bristle is too strong a verb for the beta boy—at the claim that he said he is vegan. “No, I’m not,” he huffs and puffs ever so gently like Martin Short’s tobacco lawyer Nathan Thurm. “Why would you say that? I never said I was vegan.”
Talarico did say animal welfare is the right and moral thing to do, and he did strongly imply animal welfare is connected to meat-consumption, and he did say that reducing meat consumption is essential to the very existence of the planet, and he did say that respecting animals entails not killing and eating them, and he did say that, therefore, his campaign was foreswearing meat-eating. But why would anyone think that means Talarico doesn’t eat meat?
Two years ago, actress Candice King, gazing at Talarico like a dopey lovestruck teen, asked him to name something he hates. Talarico replied, “I hate people who are not willing to change their mind.” Then she asked him to name something he loves aside from his family and friends. Weirdo Talarico responded, “the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state capitol to advocate for their humanity.” This is another tricksy bit of rhetoric.
To deny that biological boys are girls is tantamount in the Upside Down where leftists live to denying their humanity. In the real world, where normies live and move and have their being, respecting the humanity of their fellow humans entails affirming their objective God-given natures.
I wonder, in service of rejecting hatred, will Talarico change his mind on the “trans” issue, porn for children, and marriage?
Howdy Doody Talarico understands neither theology, nor science, nor moral truth. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, an evil man who “presents” as an innocent choir boy.