James Talarico

That's what we're known for.

We're the friendly state.

We welcome anybody in who needs help or who wants to live the American dream.

But we also have a right to know who's coming into our home.

We can be hospitable while still maintaining security.

And so I think it's telling that the Republicans are cutting that quote in half because they don't want us to know that we can do both.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, they're accusing me of believing in progressive Christianity.

I don't believe in a progressive Christianity.

I believe in a biblical Christianity.

I want everyone to go back and read, whether you're a Christian or not, go back and read Matthew 25.

Read the parable of the sheep and the goats.

It's a fascinating story.

At the end of the world, Jesus gathers all the people and all the nations.

So it's us as individuals, but it's also us as communities, as societies.

And the story says that Jesus is gonna tell some of us, depart from me because I was hungry and you didn't feed me.

I was sick and you didn't heal me.

I was a stranger and you didn't welcome me.

And then we're going to respond and say, Christ, when did we see you hungry or sick or a stranger and not help you?

And then he replies, what you do for the least of these is what you do for me.