(LifeSiteNews) — Podcast superstar Joe Rogan, who supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, has changed his tune, urging a young woke politician — who claims there is no biblical basis to oppose abortion and homosexuality, and who previously asserted in a public hearing that “modern science recognizes six genders” — to run for president because “we need someone who is actually a good person” in the White House. 

During a 2.5-hour podcast interview, Rogan fawned over the 36-year-old Texan, a rising star in the Democrat Party.  

Rogan reportedly invited Texas state Rep. James Talarico to be a guest on his show after seeing his viral social media video posts explaining his opposition to displaying the Ten Commandments in Texas public schools. 

During his discussion with Rogan, the lawmaker, who is regarded by fellow Democrats as a devout Christian and is currently enrolled at Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, condemned what he calls the “religious right.”  

“For the last 40-50 years, the religious right has made a concerted effort to make homosexuality and abortion the two biggest issues for Christians,” Talarico noted. 

Then he made a shocking statement: “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.”  

Back in 2021, Talarico asserted in a Texas Statehouse Public Education Committee hearing that sex is not binary while arguing that gender-confused male students should be able to compete in girls’ sports in the Lone Star State.

He stated that “modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes.” 

“In fact, there are six,” Talarico added. 

Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza, responding to Talarico at the time, stating on X that the “only thing obvious here is this man’s stupidity.”

By the end of their conversation, the enamored Rogan suggested that Talarico would make a great presidential nominee for the Democratic Party in 2028. 

“You need to run for president,” Rogan said. “We need someone who is actually a good person.” 

Joe Rogan encourages WOKE Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico to run for PRESIDENT?! pic.twitter.com/6H2Jbf7nLP

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With that statement, Rogan was clearly calling into question Trump’s character and handling of his office. 

We’ve seen this before

The young aspiring minister’s dismissals of opposition to abortion and homosexuality as having no scriptural basis are nothing new.

Talarico displays the same carefully curated Howdy Doody, gosh darn nice guy from the heartland image as Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.   

Rogan has fallen for Talarico in the same way that  Newt Gingrich, Ben Shapiro, and Rush Limbaugh fell for Buttigieg’s “normal guy” demeanor at the outset of his run for the presidency in 2020. 

In the leadup to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the land, another heartland-raised young Evangelical named Matthew Vines published a much-praised book titled God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships. 

It was written to help get same-sex marriage across the finish line in the United States.

Harvard-educated Vines erroneously claimed that the concept of complementarity that most Christians have traditionally embraced has always been wrong. 

“The bottom line is this: The Bible doesn’t directly address the issue of same-sex orientation — or the expression of that orientation,” Vines wrote. 

“Adam and Eve’s sameness, not their gender difference, was what made them ‘suitable partners,” Vines asserted, “ … ‘gender complementarity’ is not explicit in the account of the creation of Adam and Eve. (Yet) Complementarity is the reason most non-affirming Christians oppose same-sex relationships.” 

“Christians who affirm the full authority of Scripture can also affirm committed, monogamous same-sex relationships,” Vines concluded. Only then can “Christianity’s reputation in much of the Western world can begin to rebound.”