Posted on 06/22/2026 9:16:36 AM PDT by thegagline
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.
*** 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. *** Recently, Talarico publicly vented that his GOP foe, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, “is clipping my past cringey comments” and clarified his belief that “you can’t use human categories to define God.”
*** “While Ken Paxton clips a few cringey comments to distract from the fact that he gave an Epstein-style sweetheart deal to an admitted child molester, James will continue demanding that Paxton release the Hoffman Files so Texans can get answers about the corrupt deal that let a pedophile back on our streets.” ***
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Soy boy and then some. Good Lord. Poor Texas, if this guy has even a smidgen chance of getting elected, well....I’m at a loss for words.
p.s. I’m talking about talarico, not the mixed up Latina.
Who needs Ozempic when all you have to do is put that picture on your refrigerator?
It isn’t just Texas. There has been a trend in which the grossly ethically-challenged, and outright crackpots, wind up in public office. I know that politics has always attracted those who are not the best among us, but c’mon — this is getting ridiculous. The disturbing thing, and a deeper problem, is not that they can be elected, but that there are people who willingly vote for them.
What the hell is a latinx? Is that the same as a whitx or blackx? or asianx? Only different?
These two are both given over to an evil spirit.
The fact that they can somehow reasonably expect a large enough population to support them tells us just how far down into hell our nation has descended.
Yep, just like Thomas Aquinas
My whiteness. Oh Brother - the sooner this clown returns to public obscurity, the Better. BARF.
That is one ugly creature.
Sad but true.
.......Henderson-Espinoza, a PhD scholar, uses He/They pronouns and self-describes as Mestizaje (mixed race), autistic, non-binary, transgender, and Latinx......
Back when I was working toward my PhD (in molecular biology), I audited courses from the very best Lutheran PhD scholars at Harvard.
How can anyone get a PhD in Queer Studies? Is it even legitimate? As a real PhD, I don’t think so! And as a Christian (a convert to Orthodox Christianity), I don’t accept Queer theology at all!!
This person even looks queer—in every sense of that word!
As for the "how" read Romans 1 from verse 16 to the end of the chapter. I'm not saying it makes sense. I'm just saying that every time the western world believes there's no God (ala before the Apostle Paul's day, then later in the 17th century Enlightenment, then later again in the early 20th century progressive era, with "progressive" being more about the enlightenment 2.0 thought before the word was hijacked by the political class), the next step is to get heavy in the heterosexual hedonism. Maybe not technically hedonism, but the behavior is much the same. If the west gets proud of it, the next phase is homosexual hedonism. If the west gets proud of that too (as our leaders are now, instead of it being a wake up call to go back to God), the west then:
29 until they were filled (permeated, saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice and mean-spiritedness. They are gossips [spreading rumors], 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors [of new forms] of evil, disobedient and disrespectful to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful [without pity]. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree and His judgment, that those who do such things deserve death, yet they not only do them, but they even [enthusiastically] approve and tolerate others who practice them. (Amplified translation)
What's the solution? As always it's back up in verse 16:
Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation [from His wrath and punishment] to everyone who believes [in Christ as Savior], to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
The western world got into Christ and stopped the cultural death spiral in the centuries after Paul. Then over a thousand years later, the Enlightenment era's first sexual revolution was stopped by the Frist and Second Great Awakenings, which resulted even in the abolition of slavery. Today we need the Fourth Great Awakening to keep building (assuming one agrees that the spiritual growth in the mid-20th century was enough to call the Third Great Awakening) to rid us of the 20th-21st century progressive era sexual pride and related sins.
I bet if you pronounce it “la-tinks” someone will be offended.
“Latinx” is a word the left made up because they didn’t like that a group of both men and women is called “Latino” according to the rules of Spanish. Never mind that we already had a perfectly good gender-neutral word to describe people from Latin America: Hispanic.
By the way, I’m from Southern California. Not a single Mexican I know calls themselves “Latinx” because it sounds weird to a Spanish speaker. The only reason Spanish even has the letter X is to deal with imported Greek words like “xenofobia”.
Talarico is a mindless jerk. Normal White Men built this civilization. We're happy to share it with others who don't try to destroy it ... but it's ours.
I was being a bit sarcastic, but it is all bs.
There is a polka dedicated to this ham beast.
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