Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico’s longtime Austin church gives new members copies of an “Inclusive Bible” that removes gendered language for God, according to undercover video footage.
\n\nThe Daily Caller reported that Rev. Jim Rigby, head pastor at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian for more than 35 years and a spiritual mentor to Talarico, told an undercover journalist the church “typically” hands out the translation when people join.
\n\n“It’s good on the gender stuff,” Rigby said in the video. “The more, like, metaphysical stuff, it’s not a very good translation, if that makes sense. I think it’s really important to have a good translation so you can let go of the stupid stuff.”
\n\nThe footage, recorded in August, shows a new member identified as Larry receiving a copy during a service.
\n\n“It’s the Bible that we use at this church,” an unidentified woman says. “It’s been rewritten so that there is only inclusive language and that it doesn’t use the gender-fueled language that the King James Version uses.”
\n\nFirst published in 2007 by Priests for Equality, the translation bills itself as the “first egalitarian” Bible, according to the Christian Post. Its translators call “the Lord” a “sexist and classist form” of…
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