Posted on 06/22/2026 8:51:31 AM PDT by DFG
Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico once lavished praise on a self-described “TransQueer, Latinx” activist theologian as a major source of inspiration for his left-wing philosophy.
“When you started following me on Twitter, I couldn’t contain my inner fan boy, because I read your book last year and it continues to inspire me and y’all’s work continues to inspire me,” the state lawmaker told Roberto Henderson-Espinoza during a March 2021 podcast appearance.
“I told you I was a boring, straight, cis white man, and I added ‘Presbyterian’ to spice it up,” Talarico added. “My imagination is also just limited by my own background and identity.”
“My whiteness, my masculinity, all those things limit my imagination about what’s possible,” he went on. “And that’s where … your book helps me do that.”
Henderson-Espinoza, a PhD scholar, uses He/They pronouns and self-describes as Mestizaje (mixed race), autistic, non-binary, transgender, and Latinx.
The book Talarico referred to was Henderson-Espinoza’s “Activist Theology,” published in 2019, which lays out a brand of progressive religious values aimed at fighting “interlocking supremacies.”
The two began interacting in February 2021 after Talarico followed Henderson-Espinoza on X and described himself as “a BIG fan.”
Since winning the Democratic nod for Senate, Talarico has faced a deluge of attacks from Republicans accusing him of being too woke for Texas.
GOP critics have pointed to Talarico’s past remarks, including from 2021, when he explained that “In my faith, God is non-binary,” argued that the Bible is fine with abortion, and suggested that there are six biological sexes.
Talarico’s past affinity for Henderson-Espinoza seemingly provides some clues about where he was getting some of those ideas.
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We NEED State Hospital for the Insane
Yikes somebody please post a pic of Sydney Sweeney as a palate cleanser.
My patience with these freaks is wearing thin, more with the idiots that support them and raise them up. This “man” is an oxygen thief.
I spell “Sodomy” with a capital-S because it is the name of a religion.
Makes me think of this guy....
ICK! I hope I can unsee that.
The pandering here is off the charts
Jeepers! Does it shave it’s chest?
Talarico is completely under Satanic deception.
He is a vessel for unclean spirits.
Theologian??????? Obviously doesn’t read the same Bible I do. Seems to me a little repentance is in order . . . but probably a lot of repentance. I really don’t get this kind of garbage Christianity. I guess they consider themselves like the Gnostics and (supposedly) were given some kind of special knowledge. The apostle Paul ripped the Gnostics to tatters. The Bible is clear: do not add to or take away from God’s word.
I am so done with trans. But I was done with it from the moment I figured out how to interpret “trans.” (If you substitute the word “fake” for “trans” then you’ll know the actual biological sex of the person.) Even so, I find it difficult to believe that anyone is still bending the knee to the trans cult. Further, celebrities are declaring that all their children or “trans” or one of the other weird words that are being substituted for male and female or boy and girl. These people are destroying their children’s lives and setting them up for an entire lifetime of misery. This is child abuse. In the early eighties I had a customer whose on-site boss was a cross dresser. He was the most miserably unhappy person I ever met. Now imagine him taking a child to a doctor for the purpose of sexual mutilation.
Why is this still going on? How can we install people in office who can’t define what a woman is? And if a man dressed as a woman must be considered a woman, why is it necessary to do the surgery? Trans is the modern world’s lobotomy. In twenty years, we will look back on trans the same way we view lobotomies today. But those who were “changed” will live with the change for the rest of their lives.
Stop the world. I want to get off.
“My imagination is also just limited by my own background and identity.”
Nah.
Yer just stupid.
ROTFLMAO!. A tubby Dan Aykroydx.
No Nose Ring...
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There’s Hope.
Yuppers!
Roman’s 9:10
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They’ve been given over
To Depravity.
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