Top 6 theological takes from Senate candidate James Talarico: 'Dumb and blasphemous'
3. LGBT issues: 'God is non-binary'
During a speech he delivered in 2021 on the floor of the Texas House in opposition to a bill requiring students to play on sports teams that align with their biology, Talarico warned the law would drive trans-identifying children to suicide and claimed God Himself is non-binary, which is a Gnostic idea.
"God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between; God is non-binary," Talarico said, noting the Hebrew word "ruach," used to describe God's "spirit" in Genesis 1:2, is feminine in its grammatical gender. Every Hebrew noun has a masculine or feminine grammatical gender, though such is not always reflective of sex. The same Hebrew word Talarico cited is also used to describe the spirit of Pharaoh in Genesis 41:8 and the spirit of Jacob in Genesis 45:27.
Talarico further claimed the plural self-reference of God in Genesis 1:26, generally considered by Hebrew scholars to be an example of the grammatical "royal we" majestic plural, suggests that "trans children are God's children, made in God's own image."
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Talarico, who boasted of placing pronouns on his office's business cards, has also maintained that modern science has determined there are as many as six biological sexes, though he later clarified he was referring to various chromosomal disorders that deviate from the typical XX-XY.
Here's James Talarico, the new Democrat nominee for US Senate for Texas, bragging about how his office was the first in the state to add pronouns to their official business cards.
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Talarico has repeatedly defended homosexuality and abortion by noting there is no record of Jesus addressing such topics in the Bible, which Robert Gagnon, who serves as Visiting Scholar at Wesley Biblical Seminary in Ridgeland, Mississippi, dismissed as "juvenile hermeneutics" in a lengthy X post this week.
Noting the similar "paucity of condemnations of bestiality" from Jesus, Gagnon wrote, "Some sexual offenses are so extreme that the very mention of them is viewed as scandalizing. How many times have you heard a sermon about why you shouldn't have sex with your parent, sibling, or child? I'm guessing never, but not because your pastor regards such behavior as acceptable or only marginally bad."
Gagnon, who wrote The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics, also described as "laughable" the idea that Mary aborting the unborn Son of God was even an option, despite Talarico's application of the Annunciation to abortion rights.
"Yes, from leftist seminaries like Austin Presbyterian Seminary you too can get this dumb and blasphemous," Gagnon said.
Talarico's pastor, Jim Rigby, was at the forefront of pushing the PCUSA into accepting LGBT ordination and marriage, going so far as to refuse the Lord's Supper at presbytery meetings in protest of their prohibition during the 1990s.
Despite failing to incite the formal ecclesiastical trial he wanted on such issues, Rigby's views ultimately prevailed in the denomination, which has since been hemorrhaging members after allowing LGBT ordination in 2011 and marriage in 2015.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com
