There is a cultural and political war being waged by the secular Left against the Gospel, Christians, and specifically against the teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. They are trying to recast Christ as a “woke” socialist who favors open borders and aborting innocent children.
We know Jesus is the King of Kings who died on the cross for our sins. The Left is trying to “transition” Him into a member of the “Squad”—the group of left-wing crazies in Congress led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
As Christians, we should be slow to anger; but righteous indignation is an appropriate response to the effort underway to steal the Gospel, the inspired Word of God.
For many decades, the radical Left—most prominently the LGBTQ movement—has openly mocked Jesus and Christians.
In 1983, pornographer Larry Flynt published a revolting “satire” about Reverend Jerry Falwell, suggesting he had an incestuous relationship with his mother. In 1987, “artist” Andres Serrano became famous for submerging a crucifix in a jar of his own urine and calling it art. His “art” was titled Piss Christ.
Christians were not amused. Dr. Dobson and I aggressively attacked this blasphemy.
Two years later, LGBTQ demonstrators in the radical, violent homosexual group ACT UP stormed St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.
In 1998, Terrence McNally released his play Corpus Christi, which reimagined Jesus and His disciples as a group of gay men living in modern-day Corpus Christi, Texas.
More recently, left-wing politicians mocked the prayers of Christians after children were murdered by a transgender maniac at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics featured drag queens, children, and a transgender model mockingly depicting the Last Supper.
Democrats and their left-wing allies routinely smear Christians who love Jesus and America as “Christian nationalists.”
This vitriol and hatred finally woke up many Christians who had ignored the growing hostility to our faith. Dr. James Dobson was one of the key leaders urging the church to wake up. He regularly asked pastors to address the battle from their pulpits. Multiple Christian organizations were created during those years, dedicated to defending religious liberty and the sanctity of life. Christian conservatives entered the public square in record numbers.
Now, the secular Left and their apologists have embraced a major change in tactics. This is particularly true for those seeking to win elections and gain power in our government. Rather than directly mocking the Gospel, they are distorting it and the teachings of Christ to justify ungodly and anti-Christian positions on public policy issues. Their goal is to confuse Christian citizens, discourage them, or actually win their votes for a far-left agenda.
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending the fiction that abortion was a constitutional right, Governor Gavin Newsom paid to put up billboards in eighteen pro-life states, promoting California’s pro-abortion laws using Scripture. One of the billboards declares, “Need an abortion? California is ready to help”1 and it includes Mark 12:31: “Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” So, promoting abortion, according to the governor of California, is an example of loving your neighbor. This “love” results in the death of a human baby made in the image of God. Governor Newsom is considered one of the frontrunners for the 2028 Democrat presidential nomination.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s upcoming book is another example of the new left-wing tactic to disguise the radical agenda under a veneer of the Christian faith. The book’s title, Go and Do Likewise, is taken from the parable of the Good Samaritan, who showed mercy to a stranger.2
But Beshear uses his faith to justify sterilizing and mutilating children. He told The View that he vetoed legislation protecting children from radical transgender procedures because, “my faith teaches me that all children are children of God.”3 He is right about that. But he isn’t protecting children. He is condemning them to trans indoctrination and the mutilation of their bodies for profit.
Referring to the enforcement of our immigration laws, Beshear claimed, “If you’re a person of faith, you don’t want to see people chained at the ankles.”4 Of course, Christian theology justifies arresting criminals, getting them off our streets, and restraining them so they cannot harm law-abiding citizens and families. As Christians, we don’t want to see women and children victimized, murdered, robbed, and raped because we didn’t apprehend and put criminals in jail.
The poster boy for this hijacking of God’s Word is Texas State Representative and now US Senate candidate James Talarico. He has tried to recast radical left-wing policies as somehow rooted in Scripture. In the name of compassion, he wields the Bible not as a source of Truth but as a campaign prop. He preaches a selective and distorted reading of Christianity designed to sanctify leftist ideology, turning the Gospel of Jesus Christ into a grotesque gospel that Karl Marx, the founder of communism, would embrace. Talarico is promoting moral perversion, not the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
On abortion, Talarico insists that one of Christianity’s “most central stories” proves God is pro-abortion. He claims that before the incarnation “God asks for Mary’s consent.” In Talarico’s interpretation of Scripture, Mary had a choice to “abort” the Son of God. This is not exegesis; it is radical ideology masquerading as theology, turning Mary’s “Be it unto me according to thy word” into a blessing of abortion on demand.5
To read the Scripture as justifying abortion, one has to ignore the fact that the entire message of the Bible is a gospel of life:
- “Be fruitful and increase . . .” (Genesis 1:28)
- “I have set before you life and death . . . Now choose life, so that you and your children may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
- “You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13).
- “Children are a heritage from the Lord . . .” (Psalm 127:3)
- “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
The whole Gospel is pro-life. The Christian Church at its very beginning was known for protecting and saving babies.
On sex and gender, Talarico claims God is the author of radical gender ideology and sexual chaos. In one social media post, Talarico wrote, “Over and over Christians used Scripture to justify bullying trans kids. I told them in my faith God is non-binary.”6
During one legislative hearing, Talarico claimed that “there are many more than two biological sexes,” concluding that “sex is a spectrum and oftentimes it can be very ambiguous.”7
I don’t know what Bible Talarico is reading, but Genesis 1:27 is clear: “God created mankind in His own image . . . male and female He created them.” There aren’t more than two sexes in God’s creation.
For years, when Dr. James Dobson and I quoted biblical teaching to explain why we were pro-faith, family, and freedom, the secular Left said we were violating the separation of church and state. They were wrong, but that was their argument. Today, the Left distorts the Gospel and uses it to argue for big government, the LGBTQ agenda, abortion on demand, and all sorts of decadence. As Christians, we must be discerning and reject these lies. Don’t let the socialist, secular Left hijack the Gospel and Jesus for their sick agenda.
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version® (NIV®), © Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission.
- Gavin Newsom, Twitter post, September 15, 2022.
- Reston, “Beshear Is Latest 2028 Contender.”
- TheBlaze, Twitter post, February 9, 2026, https://x.com/theblaze/status/2020932938226122809.
- Key, “Beshear: People of Faith Don’t Support ICE Chaining People’s Ankles.”
- Talarico, interview by Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience, episode 2352.
- TheBlaze, Instagram post, October 15, 2021, https://www.instagram.com/p/CVD-Gi-FbWh/.
- Talarico, remarks, Texas House Public Education Committee hearing, April 2021.
