(LifeSiteNews) — California Congressman Eric Swalwell, primarily famous for his relationship with exposed Chinese spy Fang Fang and his failed presidential run against Joe Biden, has decided to go on the offensive against the Republican Party’s socially conservative wing. His accusation? The GOP, according to Swalwell, has been “weaponizing faith.”
The Democrat recently told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace that he was a fan of a recent podcast appearance by Democratic Texas State Rep. James Talarico, who told Joe Rogan that the Democrats are “the party that fights for the little guy” and went on to defend abortion as permissible by Christianity. Tarico, like the idealogue he is, did not see the irony in being a feticidal fighter for the little guy.
“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,” Talarico said. “To me, that should, I think, ring alarm bells as to what is the agenda here, what is someone trying to get across. And I think if we’re looking at the last 40, 50 years, the Religious Right has made a concerted effort to make homosexuality and abortion the two biggest issues for Christians.”
“And you know, the Southern Baptist Convention was pro-choice until the late 1970s,” he went on. “So this idea that to be a Christian means you have to be anti-gay and anti-abortion, there really is no historical, theological, biblical basis for that opinion.”
When Rogan pushed him, Talarico claimed that the Bible itself permits abortion. Talarico’s evidence for that assertion, bizarrely, is that Adam was given life when God created him by breathing life into him. This, he said, means that there is a biblical foundation for saying that life begins when you take your first breath. The claim is breathtakingly stupid, but Democrats were quick to celebrate and promote it.
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Pro-life activists were swift to debunk this heretical and ahistorical nonsense (citing texts such as Jeremiah 1:5, Exodus 20:13, Psalm 139: 13-16, and Luke 1:41), and Talarico clearly has never heard of (or does not care about) the Didache and other early Christian texts that affirm Scripture and condemn the killing of unborn children. But Swalwell was inspired by Talarico’s performance on Rogan.
Swalwell told MSNBC’s Wallace that the Rogan interview was “very moving,” and that he would like to emulate it. “I saw myself as a Democrat because Republicans fight for the rich and Democrats fight for the rest,” Swalwell said. “But the larger point here, and you asked right before we went to a commercial, how do we reach more voters on this message of why they should have the Epstein files, what the assemblymember is doing is, he’s going into more spaces and places.”
Those “spaces,” for Swalwell, mean Christian platforms. “I made a decision after the last election, when I saw that 68 percent of the voters identified as Christian in one way or another, that I needed to do Christian podcasts,” Swalwell said. “And I’ve been doing about one to two a month.”
“I was raised as a Christian,” Swalwell continued. “I went to a Christian college on a soccer scholarship, but I would not talk about my faith because I thought it didn’t really belong in politics. But what I’ve seen is that Republicans are weaponizing faith, and it’s actually to our disadvantage not to talk about it.”
Swalwell does not possess Talarico’s knack for serpentine smooth-talking, but it is notable that both Democrats believe that some success might be found in defending their socially progressive agenda in Christian terms. Talarico’s characterization of the Religious Right’s “agenda” on the LGBT agenda and abortion is, incidentally, almost precisely the opposite of the truth. For decades, social conservatives have been responding to massive cultural changes brought about by the Sexual Revolution (of which Talarico and Swalwell are religious quisling members).
When social conservatives notice cultural changes and object to them, we are promptly accused of triggering a “culture war” rather than reacting to a culture war that is already clearly underway. To object to the mainstreaming of the LGBT agenda or the killing of children in the womb is to be in continuity with Christian civilization; to advocate for those things is to be profoundly revolutionary. But progressives like Talarico and Swalwell would like to gaslight us into believing that the opposite is the case.
Swalwell, like Talarico, is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He wants to wear Christianity like a skinsuit in order to defend the killing of the defenseless. He should not be permitted to get away with it.
