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Speaking to Rep. Hefner "Modern Science obviously recognizes there are many more than two biological sexes, in fact there are 6. Honestly representative Hefner it surprised me too because I am not well versed in this issue area, I'm not a scientist I'm a politician, a lot worse than a scientist. So, this was alot for me to learn, you know, that rathern than just the XX and XY theres actually single X, there's XXY, XYY, XXXY, so there are 6 really common biological sexes."

Committee On Public Education

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Talarico is very likely not the most radical Democrat that has come out of Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States signed the civil rights act signed the Civil Rights Act, he was born in Stonewall, Texas. Rep Greg Casar is a sitting Congressman of Texas's 35th Congressional district who is by almost all accounts a more radical democrat that James Talarico, and was at one time publicly affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America until they withdrew their endorsement following comments he made about Isreal.

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Talarico said "God is so much bigger than our human categories. God is not a Presbyterian. God is not a Christian. God is not a noun at all. God is a verb. God is not a being. God is being itself. God is love. And that's why Jesus is against anything that gets in the way of that love between neighbors, including religion. That's why he's always breaking religious rules. That's why he's always getting in trouble with the religious authorities. That's why he says sinners will see the kingdom of heaven before religious people do."

Sermon Given by James Talarico on the dangers of Christian Nationalism

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Talarico consulted for MAYA consulting (now VIDA Collaborative) starting in 2019 stating he was "working with districts, nonprofits, and communities to build excellent and equitable educational opportunities for all our students." There is no evidence that his work with MAYA lead to any illegal pay for play in contracts that they were later awarded. These remarks come as reports alleging that Ken Paxton took nearly 1,000 trips accompanied by state police, costing the state $3.3 million dollars from 2015 in security detail costs. Paxton took trips to Hawaii before his trust purchased land there, and a combined 77 trips to Utah and Florida were Paxton's trust also owns property.

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Talarico said "I want to speak directly to my fellow believers in the chamber. In committee I listened to 15 hours of testimony on this bill, the worst part for me was the number of Christians who used scripture to justify hurting children. Even on this floor today a member tried to justify a hateful amendment in the name of God's law. So let's talk about that. The first two lines of the Bible the first two lines in Genesis used two different Hebrew words to describe God, one is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity, the second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between, God is nonbinary. In Genesis 1:26 God speaks of God's self in the plural saying let us make human beings in our image to be like us. That's the infinite multitude of God the masculine the feminine and everything in between."

Texas House Chamber Oct 14 2021

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