{"id":86785,"date":"2026-09-23T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86785"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:15:05","slug":"a-lesbian-minister-at-james-talaricos-longtime-church-doubts-jesus-ever-existed-rejects-the-virgin-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/a-lesbian-minister-at-james-talaricos-longtime-church-doubts-jesus-ever-existed-rejects-the-virgin-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesbian Minister At James Talarico\u2019s Longtime Church Doubts Jesus Ever Existed, Rejects The Virgin Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Daily Wire:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A lesbian minister at James Talarico\u2019s longtime church doubts Jesus ever existed, rejects the virgin birth, and believes Christ \u201cdidn\u2019t die to save our sins,\u201d according to undercover footage obtained by The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Babs Miller, minister to the parish at St. Andrew\u2019s Presbyterian Church in Austin, flatly rejected core tenets of the Christian faith, even as fellow congregant James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee, routinely invokes his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/talarico-says-god-is-not-a-christian-in-unearthed-sermon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fringe view of the Gospel<\/a> to appeal to voters in the Bible Belt\u2019s largest state. Speaking to an undercover journalist, Miller was caught saying she believes the virgin birth was made up while describing her approach to religion as similar to a 12-step program: \u201cTake what you want and leave the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Daily Wire: A lesbian minister at James Talarico\u2019s longtime church doubts Jesus ever existed, rejects the virgin birth,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86787,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86785\/revisions\/86787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}