{"id":350270,"date":"2026-06-25T18:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350270\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:31:29","slug":"dan-patrick-again-says-james-talarico-is-going-to-hell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350270\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Patrick again says James Talarico is &#8216;going to hell&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first episode of his new podcast, the Republican lieutenant governor said he has \u201cnever seen anyone commit so much blasphemy against the word of God in the Bible as he is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe may think he&#8217;s going to the Senate but I&#8217;m praying for him, because if he doesn&#8217;t really come back from that, then he&#8217;s going to hell,\u201d Patrick said during the interview with Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican running against Talarico.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paxton agreed with the sentiment, adding \u201cthey are not Christian views, they are his views.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Talarico\u2019s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Austin state representative previously responded to similar comments from Patrick with the statement \u201clove feels like blasphemy when you worship power\u201d on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Patrick\u2019s comments come as Republicans have homed in on Talarico\u2019s past statements in an effort to make the Austin Democrat seem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/politics\/texas\/article\/greg-abbott-james-talarico-midterms-22281013.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">out of step with Texas voters<\/a>. Those include a clip from a 2021 floor debate where Talarico said \u201cGod is non-binary&#8221; and his stance that the Bible does not advocate for anti-abortion views.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that there is a set Christian orthodoxy on the issue of abortion is just not rooted in Scripture,\u201d he said in a podcast interview with Joe Rogan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Patrick previously drew backlash from Democrats and some Christians after he made similar comments at the state\u2019s Republican convention in Houston earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Christians, we have a responsibility to take our place as followers of Jesus. We are not prophets. We are not gatekeepers of heaven and hell. And we certainly are not God,\u201d former state Rep. Glenn Rogers, a Republican, wrote in a Dallas Morning News column. \u201cYet Patrick decrees that Talarico is \u2018going to Hell for sure.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first episode of his new podcast, the Republican lieutenant governor said he has \u201cnever seen anyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-350270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}