During a June 2023 appearance on Texas Impact’s “Weekly Witness” show, Talarico was asked, “How do you use your faith to guide your policy principles?”

“I mean, my faith is why I’m in politics,” Talarico said before boasting about how woke and secular his church has been for decades.

“Our church was really in active in LGBTQ rights in the 90s. We caught some attention by letting an atheist join our church in the 2000s,” he noted.