Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) has described Rev. Jim Rigby, pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, as a major influence on his Christian faith.
Talarico, the Democrat currently competing with state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) for a U.S. Senate seat, told the New York Times that Rigby was one of “the biggest influences on [him] as a Christian, as a human being.”
Hidden-camera footage dated August 30 shows Rigby being asked by an off-camera individual: “What’s wrong with evangelical Christians? Like, how do they read what they read, they claim what they claim?”
Talarico, a part-time Presbyterian seminarian who has fought to keep the Bible out of school; attempted to use Scripture to justify abortion; taken money from an associate of dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein; expressed concern about traditional Christian views; and voted against sparing children from sex-rejection mutilations, described Rigby as “my pastor in every sense of the word.” He also claimed that Rigby had “denied virtually every key doctrine of Christianity in less than two minutes.”
