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For those of you unfamiliar with how media tropes work, there’s something called “Betteridge’s law of headlines.” Put simply, the law is this: If a headline ends in a question mark, the answer is always “no.”

I mention this because I can only assume that the folks at The New York Times — which, remains the newspaper of record in and from these United States, despite all evidence that it shouldn’t be — know about it, if not at the authorship level than at least at the editorial one.

Hence, what does it tell you that the semi-official mouthpiece of the Democratic Party published a piece last Monday that went largely under the radar, titled “Are Texans Ready for Talarico’s Kind of Christianity?”

At least they already know the answer.

Talarico, as you probably know, is described very, very frequently using the two word construct “Presbyterian seminarian,” mostly to launder him as the “faith and values” candidate in the 2026 Texas Senate race.

(Republican nominee Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, has a much longer record of supporting causes dear to Christian voters, but also a record of personal behavior that invariably gets reported as spotty, especially as regards his wife seeking divorce against him last year “on biblical grounds.”)

“Presbyterian seminarian” is not precisely a statement of morals, however, or of biblical orthodoxy. This is made clear by the lede to the Times’ dissection of Talarico’s congregation and faith leader:

On a recent Sunday morning at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, Jim Rigby asked his congregation to share what came to mind when he mentioned the Apostle Paul, the major Christian figure to whom 13 books in the Bible are attributed. They cheerfully complied: “Villain!” “Homophobic!” Advertisement - story continues below “He’s a jerk.” Paul’s attributed writings include passages seen as encouraging wives to submit to their husbands and instructing them to be quiet in church, and others condemning same-sex sexual behavior as sinful.

On a recent Sunday morning at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, Jim Rigby asked his congregation to share what came to mind when he mentioned the Apostle Paul, the major Christian figure to whom 13 books in the Bible are attributed. They cheerfully complied:

Paul’s attributed writings include passages seen as encouraging wives to submit to their husbands and instructing them to be quiet in church, and others condemning same-sex sexual behavior as sinful.

Amazing, this version of Christianity. In Soviet Presbyterian congregation, God doesn’t judge you, you........

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