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Religion Rewritten—a New Face for the Democratic Party · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Under the last administration, Sleepy Joe Biden and the radical
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  Speaker 1: left Democrats. I change in that it's dumb. I use it.
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  Speaker 1: I will probably always until they become reasonable. I'll lose
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  Speaker 1: a you instead of a It's very simple. It's a
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  Speaker 1: very simple change. I take you out the eat and
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  Speaker 1: I put into you and the Democrats because their policies
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  Speaker 1: are so dumb.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Friday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update. We've got one big story
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  Speaker 3: and it's a deep dive and to a guy by
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  Speaker 3: the name of James Tallarico. He is becoming the face
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  Speaker 3: of the Democratic Party in the midterm elections, running for
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  Speaker 3: office for Senate in Texas. So how dangerous is James
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  Speaker 3: Tallarico and what are the Democrats pushing. We've got all
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  Speaker 3: the details for you now. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 3: dot com. That's Compassion dot com. It's the forty seven
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  Speaker 3: Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: I want to introduce you to James tall Rico. Now,
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  Speaker 3: James tall Rico is a guy that wants you to
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  Speaker 3: believe that he is a faith based Christian pastor Texas moderate.
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  Speaker 3: All right, this is not who he actually is, and
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  Speaker 3: you need to know exactly what his record shows, and
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  Speaker 3: it's something very different. In fact, he is a hardcore
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  Speaker 3: radical progressive activist who actually uses Christianity as a vehicle
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  Speaker 3: for his left wing politics. And he's so extreme he's
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  Speaker 3: not even a moderate in California, much less Texas. Now.
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  Speaker 3: It's campaign site says he's a quote Presbyterian seminarian and
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  Speaker 3: that his faith leads him to quote reject Christian nationalism
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  Speaker 3: while supporting a democracy that protects people regardless of religion, race, gender,
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  Speaker 3: sexual orientation, and other offenses. Now, I got that from
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  Speaker 3: Tall Rico for Texas. So if you don't like what
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  Speaker 3: I just read for you, go read it there. You
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  Speaker 3: don't believe me, go read it there yourself. Now, let
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  Speaker 3: me just introduce you to some of the crazy things
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  Speaker 3: that he's actually said, and we're going to start at
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  Speaker 3: the top of the list for me, and that is well,
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  Speaker 3: this one really is number one. The guy who claims
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  Speaker 3: he's like this pastor said, and I'm quoting, God is
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  Speaker 3: non binary. Yeah, Tall Rico, the Democratic candidate in Texas
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  Speaker 3: for the Senate said, in my faith, God is non binary.
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  Speaker 3: He said it during debates over a Texas bill that
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  Speaker 3: required student athletes to compete according to biological set. That
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  Speaker 3: is now one of the most controversial statements of his career,
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  Speaker 3: as it's being reported by The New York Post. God
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  Speaker 3: is non binary because he wants to trans your kids.
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  Speaker 3: Number two, he actually argued that there are more than
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  Speaker 3: two biological sexes. Tall Rico said, quote, modern science obviously
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  Speaker 3: recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes, adding,
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  Speaker 3: in fact, there are six. He tied that argument to
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  Speaker 3: rare chromosonial variations and said sex can be quote unquote
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  Speaker 3: a spectrum. So this dude does not believe in XOI
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  Speaker 3: chromosome chromosomes at all, Like he believes it like you
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  Speaker 3: can just make it up and be whatever you want
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Then later he tried to clean it up. When he
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  Speaker 3: was confronted on CBS, tall Rico said, I know there
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  Speaker 3: are two sexes and admitted some of his past comments
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  Speaker 3: quote unquote missed the Now why is he saying that now? Well,
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  Speaker 3: because they're trying to make him a moderate to appeal
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  Speaker 3: to more voters in Texas. He also pushed very hard
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  Speaker 3: on transgender politics, and that's where many of his campaign
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  Speaker 3: contributions are coming from, that transgendered LGBTQI plus plus plus community.
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  Speaker 3: And you can highlight this from a twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 3: post saying and that his Texas House office added pronouns
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  Speaker 3: to the staff business cards as what he said was
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  Speaker 3: a quote small way to tell trans Texans you are
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  Speaker 3: welcome here. Now this is not a joke. So if
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  Speaker 3: you work for tall Rico and you had a business
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  Speaker 3: card and you're in the state legislature, they put your
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  Speaker 3: pronouns on there because he wanted to again say that
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  Speaker 3: trans Texans, you're welcome here. He also does something which
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  Speaker 3: I refer to as blasphemy. Tall Rico loves to remind
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  Speaker 3: you that he's a guy that went seminary. He loves
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  Speaker 3: reminds you that he is a elitist in his faith
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  Speaker 3: above you and what you would actually know. And he
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  Speaker 3: uses the Bible to defend progressive abortion politics. As just
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  Speaker 3: one example. Reporting on his past comments, tall Rico has
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  Speaker 3: suggested the Bible in fact affirms abortion access. Let me
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  Speaker 3: say that again. He says the Bible supports an affirms
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  Speaker 3: abortion access, and has argued for reproductive rights using religious language. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so he believes the Bible now says that abortion is
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  Speaker 3: appropriate and that you should use it, and that it's
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  Speaker 3: okay and that it's protected in the Bible. Now you
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  Speaker 3: may say, okay, this guy sounds pretty extreme. Well he is,
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  Speaker 3: but let me also explain to you what he thinks
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  Speaker 3: about his own religion. This just broke a few hours
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  Speaker 3: ago an audio recording of James tall Rico talking about
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  Speaker 3: his Christian faith. And listen to what he says in
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  Speaker 3: his own words.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's you know, I always think of myself
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  Speaker 4: as a Christian who hates Christianity up right, and like
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  Speaker 4: I always get always get drop back into it.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, let's let's let's
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  Speaker 3: let's just rewind that. And I want to make sure
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  Speaker 3: you understand there was no editing done there. This is raw.
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  Speaker 3: This is a man that went seminary that once you
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  Speaker 3: believe is a passive preachers in churches that says that
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  Speaker 3: the Bible said it's okay for you to have an abortion,
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  Speaker 3: and it's advocating for it, and it's okay to trains
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  Speaker 3: your kid, and the Bible is non binary, and that
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  Speaker 3: there's there's six genders, and that God is non binary,
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  Speaker 3: and all of that comes down to again what he
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  Speaker 3: says about his own Christianity.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's you know, I always think of myself
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  Speaker 4: as a Christian who hates Christianity, up right, and like
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  Speaker 4: I always get always get drop back into it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so he gets re drawn back into it because
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  Speaker 3: I always sing of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, if you look at what he said,
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  Speaker 3: I think we already knew this, but it is convenient
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  Speaker 3: to hear him actually say it out loud and actually
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  Speaker 3: admit it. By the way, that audio I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: repost right now on x you can follow me at
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  Speaker 3: Ben Ferguson's show, and you can share that everywhere in
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  Speaker 3: the world. So please do that. Now let's move on
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  Speaker 3: from there. He also then says, reporting on his past comments,
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  Speaker 3: Talarico suggested the Bible not only a firms abortion access
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  Speaker 3: and has argued for reproductive rights using religious language, as
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned a moment ago. But then he goes on
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  Speaker 3: to say that quote unquote, poverty is violence. Yes, pollution
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  Speaker 3: is violence, and yes prison is violence. He also said
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  Speaker 3: people don't belong in cages, a line critics say sounds
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  Speaker 3: a lot like, you know, being soft on crime, right,
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  Speaker 3: because he believes that you don't put someone in jail.
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  Speaker 3: It's a guy that is anti police, bail reform, prison reform.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't believe that if you commit heinous crime, you
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  Speaker 3: should be behind ball arts. Now, all of this is
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  Speaker 3: inspired by his radical theology. Tall Rico has actually praised
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  Speaker 3: an individual described as a trans queer Latin X theologian,
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  Speaker 3: saying that the Henderson Espinosa his work challenged his worldview
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  Speaker 3: as a CIS white male. I'm just gonna let that
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  Speaker 3: marinate for a second. So he praises Roberto Henderson Espinosa.
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  Speaker 3: He describes his spiritual I guess mentor leader, whatever you
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  Speaker 3: want to call it, as a transque Latin X theologian,
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  Speaker 3: and he says the man's work challenges worldview as a
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  Speaker 3: CIS white male. Now, James call Rico, he wants Texas
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  Speaker 3: voters to see a quote moderate Christian democrat, but the
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  Speaker 3: record shows him saying God is non binary, that there
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  Speaker 3: are six biological sexes, that there are pronouns that must
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  Speaker 3: be on your business card in politics, especially that abortion
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  Speaker 3: theology is in the Bible that we shouldn't put human
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  Speaker 3: beings behind bars in cages. So let out all the
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  Speaker 3: prisoners and all the rapists and murderers and drug sellers,
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  Speaker 3: the fetanyl dealers that kill your kids. No, no, we don't
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  Speaker 3: put them in jail. And on top of that, you
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  Speaker 3: got to have radical social justice language in everything. There
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  Speaker 3: is nothing moderate about James tall Rico. This is a
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  Speaker 3: progressive seminary individual who then was put on a direct
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  Speaker 3: pipeline to power as a wolf in sheep's clothes, directly
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  Speaker 3: to the Senate pipeline for the radical left. This is
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  Speaker 3: packaging an AOC, packaging a Mundani, packaging, a newsome to
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  Speaker 3: try to turn a conservative state into one of the
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  Speaker 3: most radical states in America by doing what I just
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  Speaker 3: said about James Talerico. Now you've got to ask yourself
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  Speaker 3: this question, why is it that a lot of what
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  Speaker 3: I just said, especially if you're not really diving into
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  Speaker 3: this stuff on social media? Why is it that the
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  Speaker 3: media isn't covering this, Like the number of people that
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  Speaker 3: are not covering what he said about his faith Christianity,
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  Speaker 3: Like this is so extreme, it's not mainstream at all. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I want to play it one more time, because it's
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  Speaker 3: a really important point. If you are claiming your christian
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  Speaker 3: this is what you believe about your Christianity. How is
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  Speaker 3: this not a leading headline news story in America today?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I always think of myself as a Christian
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  Speaker 4: who hates Christianity up right, and like I always get
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  Speaker 4: always get drumped back into it.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, why would you be a Christian that
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  Speaker 3: hates Christianity? Is it because you actually hate what Christianity teaches? Right?
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  Speaker 3: I mean you're self describing yourself. In an interview with
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  Speaker 3: a self described transqueer activist theologian, tall Rico says he
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  Speaker 3: hates Christianity that is not mainstream, that is not normal.
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  Speaker 3: I also think it's interesting and if you go back
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  Speaker 3: to the war on whiteness, I think that's a good
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  Speaker 3: way of putting it. James Tallerico claims his identity as
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  Speaker 3: a white man limits what's possible and then blames it
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  Speaker 3: on his sis, I the identity. Listen carefully, this is
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  Speaker 3: again James and his own.
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  Speaker 4: Words started following me on Twitter. I you know, couldn't
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  Speaker 4: contain my uh my inner fan boy, because I have
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  Speaker 4: read your book last year and it continues to inspire me,
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  Speaker 4: and y'all's work continues to inspire me. I told you
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  Speaker 4: I was boring straight Sis white man, and then I
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  Speaker 4: added Presbyterian to spice it up. My imagination is also
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  Speaker 4: just limited by my own my own background and identity, right,
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  Speaker 4: my own my whiteness, my masculinity, all those things limited
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  Speaker 4: my imagination about what's possible. And that's where you know,
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  Speaker 4: doctor Robber, your book helps me do that. I always think.
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  Speaker 3: Of myself wow, well wow, Like all I can say
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  Speaker 3: on this is wow. He goes on to then say,
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  Speaker 3: after that the part about I always think of myself
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  Speaker 3: as a Christian who hates Christianity, and I always get
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  Speaker 3: drawn back into it. This clearly, to me, seems like
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  Speaker 3: this is an individual that truly hates not only Christianity,
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  Speaker 3: but hates his country. Right. I mean, this is the
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  Speaker 3: guy who says he hates Christians, he hates Christianity, right
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  Speaker 3: and and and I and and apparently he reads a
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  Speaker 3: very different, very different Bible. Let me also remind you
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  Speaker 3: what the Senate Democrats had to say about this guy.
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  Speaker 3: They put this out. He was sitting there with James
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  Speaker 3: Carvel and some other whack job and and and I
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  Speaker 3: want to hear what James tall Rico says in this interview.
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  Speaker 5: And that oplies to Muslims and Hindus. Listen, I have
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  Speaker 5: this is you know, they can learn a lot of
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  Speaker 5: things I U.
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  Speaker 4: I have met.
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  Speaker 5: I have met so many Hindus, Buddhists, seek Jews, most
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  Speaker 5: Lung's atheist agnostics who are more christ Like than some
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  Speaker 5: of the Christians I serve with in the text of legislature.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that is how much sustain this dude has for Christians.
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