James Talarico
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It's really not about them as individuals, them as individual lawmakers.
It is them as symptoms of a sick system.
Yeah.
Because we're running against that corruption.
Yeah.
And whether it takes the Ken Paxton form, which is an illegal kind of individualistic corruption, or if it's John Cornyn, which is a legalized systemic corruption.
form of corruption.
Both are, I think, are grotesque in a democracy, but we're going to be running against that corruption regardless of what form it takes in a Republican opponent.
The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines in Genesis, use 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 non-binary.
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.
Trans children are God's children, made in God's own image.
Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care, too.
Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day.