God Requires You To Agree With Democrats, Democrats Announce
Chris Bray
People who live by the assumption that all faith is a meaningless and expedient surface posture can’t speak to people who have actual faith.
James Talarico is Andy Beshear with a lot more hairspray.
.@JamesTalarico: For 50 years, the religious right convinced our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage—two issues that aren't mentioned in the Bible.
Jesus tells us exactly how we're going to be judged: by feeding the hungry, by healing… pic.twitter.com/FapsoUzZwB
— Team Talarico (@TeamTalaricoHQ) February 17, 2026
I particularly enjoy the application of the “50 years” frame to this argument, which must mean that all Christians passionately supported abortion and gay marriage just 51 years ago.
Talarico and Beshear are playing the same cynical and soulless game, reducing moral questions to the plane of seeming. Democrats have what they perceive as a marketing problem, over and over again. The bitter clingers are against a bunch of stuff, objecting to the wisdom and kindness of (for example) sex-change surgeries for children.
The apparent solution is for leftists to apply the language of faith to political impediments caused by faith, guessing that they can defeat beliefs with slogans and postures: If you don’t want to trans your kids, what if we told you that God says to trans your kids? What if we told you that love is Biblical, and abortions and sex-change treatments are love, so abortions and sex-change treatments are Biblical? Problem solved, right? If people prefer X, but you want them to choose Not X, then you just tell them that Not X is X, and then they choose Not X because you’ve declaratively transformed Not X into X. We gilded the trans thing with some God words, so now trans thing is God thing.
Infamously, the Kentucky governor just used this maneuver to defend sex-change treatments for minors, arguing that his faith tells him to love: