Religious councilman destroys argument for putting the ten command,ents in a classroom

That's James Talarico. He's a Democratic state rep.

 

A grad school buddy was a hardcore evangelical. He was also a REAL conservative. He got a job in Indiana across the river from Louisville & joined a big church there. He insta fought the church's attempt to keep an anti sodomy law in KY. Dude walked the walk.

 

Sorry. But we need to see the entire exchange and the text of the Bill being discussed.

There were a few flags in the splicing that tells me there is a lot more to this story.

If this lady was trying to push a bill through to require schools and classrooms post “The Ten Commandments” then the guy is 100% spot on. That would be unconstitutional and in violation of the Establishment of Religion.

But if this is about the freedom of the teacher to post “The Ten Commandments” or have a “Rainbow Flag” fly as the guy brought up. Then he is just putting on a ridiculous show.

Do you have a link to the bill so we can read it? The guy might be right. But I have my money on this is just a show.

 

do you have google? Lordy! Oh, & "we" do not.

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/SB01515I.pdf

 

I do. Thanks for posting. Having a rough night?

 

The guy was right. That is an unconstitutional bill imo.

 

far from it. having fun trying to learn a Thundercat bass line, drinking a Focal Banger & still can find a bill in 13.2 secs. ok, as pic-ed, drinking flor de cana too.

 

You are better and faster than I. I did not care enough to research it with the lack of context from the OP. That said. In this case the OP was spot on it appears.

 

I am jealous on this one…Favorite Beer is a New England Double Hazy!

Enjoy and create some good work!

 

If I ever see this guy on the shelf I will have to buy now!

 

super hard to get outside of vermont. a little dist here brings it in as well as heady topper....imo, the best 2 ipas in the world.

 

The best are always the small local breweries! I will do the bigger guys for ease. But whenever we travel I try to bring home a local Hazy. Bonus if double. We were just in Boone and the wife only likes 12 ounce cans which can be hard for Hazy’s at a local brewery to find. But Blowing Rock Brewing Company had Cloud Rise in 12 oz cans. Brought home 12 (but letting the wife enjoy them)….

Cloud Rise Hazy IPA - Blowing Rock Brewing Company - Untappd

 

May have to make a trip to Vermont now…

 

give me an address. I'll send you some.

 

He absolutely crushed it.

 

Thanks, Yes, tons of respect for this guy. Amen, Amen, Amen

 

He's deeply religious and a Democrat. Representative and aspiring preacher James Talarico hadn’t planned to deliver a sermon when he went to work at the state capitol that morning. The one featured in the video clip up thread.

Less than a week later Talarico went viral again for calling out Texas lawmakers after a mass shooting in Allen, Texas, that left eight dead. “There is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we’re not willing to solve ourselves,” he said on the house floor.



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

“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.’”

On a Monday morning this spring, a little more than a mile from the hulking Texas Capitol, Talarico was literally navigating the divide between church and state as he steered his 2016 Chevy Colorado pickup into a parking space on the serene, live oak-dotted campus of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. It was just past 8 a.m., and he was late for his weekly New Testament class, one of two seminary classes he took this past semester. Last August (2022), he enrolled in seminary to get his Master of Divinity — which, with any luck, he’ll receive in 2025 in order to become a pastor, right around the time he might begin to look at running for governor in 2026.

Religion and politics have always been intertwined for Talarico. He grew up the son of a single mother going to St. Andrew’s Presbyterian, a church that the Rev. Jim Rigby had turned into something of a refuge for progressive Christians in Austin. Rigby began ordaining gay and lesbian clergy in the 1990s, and, as a result, was put on trial by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) denomination. Rigby remains Talarico’s pastor and encouraged him to pursue seminary. He even invited Talarico to deliver his first sermon at the church last fall. Talarico chose the subject of abortion — not exactly a topic you’d expect a pastor to tackle. “Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist,” he asked the parishioners that day.

But seminary, he told me, is giving him a new and deeper vocabulary to think about changing Texas, and ammunition to fight the culture wars by quoting the same scripture his Republican opponents do — all with a pastoral smile, and as he puts it, deeper knowledge of the stories that reveal essential truths about the human condition.
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This young man has a future as a uniter, a peacemaker, and a progressive Christian pastor. If I lived in his Texas district he would have my vote, I think. He's most certainly in my radar.

 

Why are morals (The Ten Commandments) from a higher power considered religious? It was a prophet that brought these words to humanity (written by GOD) not some religious cleric. It predates Christianity and has nothing to do with religion, but it has everything to do with morality... morality is NOT exclusively religious in nature.