Texas House Representative James Tolariko recently won the Democratic Senate primary,

and his eloquent and reserved manner have earned him a lot of praise.

He's also a seminarian in the Presbyterian Church of America,

and so he gives sermons as well as speeches, like this one where he says he'll give more sermons

on how transgender men require access to abortion.

Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans

community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day

at the state capitol. And you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that too. So in today's

episode, we're going to talk about Talariko's comments on the issue of abortion, especially those

made on the Joe Rogan experience. And I'll show that evil doesn't become good just because it's

defended by a well-spoken, gentle person. I get suspicious when anybody, whether it's a televangelist

or a politician, tells me that something is central to my faith when Jesus never talks about it.

To me, that should, I think, ring alarm bells.

But Talariko is inconsistent on this point because he says you can't even call yourself a Christian

if you allegedly destroy the environment with greenhouse gases,

even though Jesus never said anything about protecting the environment.

You can't call yourself a Christian and destroy God's creation with greenhouse gases.

Now, Tolariko might say that even if Jesus didn't say anything about climate change,

Jesus did say to love our neighbor, and we can't love our neighbor if we destroy his environment.

Let's set aside the issue of greenhouse gases being a byproduct of

ways to actually love your neighbor, like giving him shelter, climate control, and reliable access to food

and medicine. Setting that aside, I'd agree that you can derive Jesus' moral teachings about

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