Modern Pentecostal Church

Modern Pentecostal/charismatic evangelical political identity centers abortion, traditional marriage, school prayer and Ten Commandments displays, Christian-focused religious liberty, school choice, Second Amendment, and secure borders. Paxton hits nearly every plank: fertilization-onward fetal personhood, Ten Commandments mandates, school prayer, vouchers including for religious schools, gun-rights maximalism, hard-line immigration, anti-transgender positioning. He loses one point because traditional evangelical theology still treats adultery and abuse of office as disqualifying for leaders, even if the political movement has set this aside in practice. Talarico is a sincere Christian publicly, which earns something, and he opposes book bans that would remove the Bible. But he supports abortion access, IVF, LGBTQ rights, marijuana legalization, opposes Ten Commandments mandates and chaplaincy laws, and explicitly campaigns against Christian Nationalism — the movement this grader is part of.