James Talarico

So my point is, we all put our faith in something.

I choose to put my faith in love, which sometimes the evidence suggests is not going to work.

Sometimes love is defeated.

Sometimes love experiences setbacks, but the trust is that it will one day win.

And that's what my tradition is all about.

But my point is,

even if you're not formally religious, if you do believe that each person is sacred, that each person is holy, that each person bears the divine image, that should fundamentally change how we engage in politics, how we treat our neighbors, and how we treat our enemies.

To me, an incarnational politics would take seriously that idea that every person is God.

Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes.

In fact, there are six.

God is non-binary.

I find this to be a deeply offensive bill.

Biological men compete against our girls in their sports.

Kamala is for they, them.

You know, I think most Texans have seen the extremism in the Texas legislature.

Instead of allowing local sports officials and school district officials to make decisions about if trans athletes can play in a certain sport, if it maintains fairness and safety, which I think is what we all want, some common sense rules about when it's appropriate, when it's not.

The Republican legislature passed a bill that would

ban it in every instance across every age group, even T-ball, right, before kids even hit puberty, because their goal was not to solve a problem.

Their goal was to score political points off the backs of a vulnerable community, which is a classic tactic in the politics of division.

I'm all here.