Earlier this week, The Frontier did everyone a solid and read State School Superintendent candidate James Taylor’s 2015 self-published manifesto, It’s Biblical, Not Political! How to Line Candidates Up Biblically.
Re-released earlier this year, the book apparently lays out Taylor’s treatise on everything from women and gay people to public schools, the Supreme Court and the proper role of Christianity in American government. Taylor even promoted the book during a debate, recommending voters read it.
Check this out:
Yikes! I know you literally shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but that one practically does the judging for you. The only thing it’s missing is a bald eagle in wraparound Oakleys holding an AR-15!
Fortunately for us, The Frontier didn’t stop at the cover like a normal person would. They actually cracked the thing open and read it. Here’s their synopsis:
James Taylor’s self-published book says the Bible should guide political decisions and argues Christianity should have a larger role in public schools.https://t.co/fuQnPVJ9Jp
— The Frontier (@readfrontier) August 19, 2026
Yep. That’s right.
“The Bible should guide political decisions” and “Christianity should have a larger role in public schools,” says Ryan Walters… errr… I mean James Taylor.
That makes sense, because, you know, if there’s one thing Christianity has always lacked in America, it’s political influence.
Taylor apparently goes deep into a variety of issues in the book, and has some particularly interesting – if not exactly uncommon in the evangelical mainstream – thoughts on women.
Via The Frontier:
Republican candidate for state superintendent James Taylor wrote in his self-published book that men should have authority over women…
God never intended women to be without “a male supervisor that is directly God or God’s vice president, man,” Taylor wrote in It’s Biblical, Not Political! How to Line Candidates Up Biblically.
“She must be under some male pattern authority in order for her to achieve all of God’s purposes for her life,” Taylor wrote. “When you have dominion, you have to have hierarchy.”
Yikes! Say what you want about Ryan Walters – and I think we’ve said a lot of it – but at least he never published a Christian nationalist manifesto explaining why women need to refer to their husbands as vice presidents!
In fact, as we all know, Ryan had pretty mainstream views on marriage. That’s why he did what half of our married couples do and filed for divorce:
Sorry. I had to drag Ryan Walters back into this.
Every time I hear or read Taylor’s words, I get terrible flashbacks to the nimrod's car selfies, publicity stunts and action movie nudie scenes. Although Taylor tries to deny it, he really is Ryan Walters 2.0… only with, as he says, a better tan.
Anyway, as the headline suggests, I don’t think Taylor’s views on women are quite the shocking revelation The Frontier made them out to be.
Sadly, these beliefs are pretty common in the evangelical mainstream, especially in the right-wing Christian nationalist corners of it, and those people are going to be voting in droves next Tuesday.
If anything, that probably helps explain why Taylor has a very good shot at winning Tuesday’s runoff. The scary part isn’t that he wrote this stuff. It’s that plenty of Republican primary voters will probably read it and nod along.
Stay with The Lost Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.
P.S. – I’d like to give props to Goforth and The Frontier for actually sitting down and suffering through the book. You can read his full report and get a look at Ryan Walters 2.0’s other views that are more terrifyingly mainstream than you’d think there.
