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I made a list of 63 of U.S. Senate candidate James Talafreako's most insane and deranged statements. Sourced and referenced. 1. "Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six" 2021-04-20, Texas House Public Education Committee 2. "God is non-binary." 2021-10-14, Texas House 3. "Our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign." 2022-02, Texas Humane Legislation Network fundraiser 4. "I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right?" 2021-03-04, Activist Theology 5. "In context of abortion … God asks for Mary's consent … So, to me that is a an affirmation in one of our most central stories, that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience 6. "Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country." 2021-03-18, Twitter/X 7. "#AhmaudArbery is the latest American killed by the virus of racism. The virus kills our black neighbors if they’re jogging, playing music, sitting in church, selling CDs, or carrying a bag of Skittles... White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go" 2020-05-08, Twitter 8. "Young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country and I think only by understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together, are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them." 2020-09-01, Austin Sierra Club climate forum 9. "Restoration, repairing past harms, is part of my faith tradition. … it's exactly why we need … to invest in black communities, to invest in black Texans" 2026-07-20, DeSoto town hall 10. "I think the Confederate flag is a symbol of treason and terrorism, but the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 11. "Defund the police is considered off limits in our political debate when defunding health services, defunding public education has been the stated policy of our state government for decades now." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising 12. "Governor Abbott has filled this special session agenda with far right conspiracy theories about trans children causing problems on sports teams, which we know does not occur in the state of Texas" 2021-07-19, FOX 7 Austin 13. "Are districts getting, you know, almost hopefully near unanimous consent for students to learn about [sex education,] maybe the most important topic that they'll learn about in school?" 2022-07, Texas House Public Education Committee 14. "Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 15. "God is not a Christian." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 16. "So, this idea that to be a Christian means you have to be anti-gay and anti-abortion, there really is no historical, theological, biblical basis for that opinion." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience 17. "Jesus is the prophetic voice in my own life, but it could be for you a different prophetic voice from a different faith tradition." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 18. "I oppose voter ID." 2021-07-13, Fox News Primetime 19. "Leasing federal property to abortion clinics on federal lands or in federal offices" 2022-06-24, Letter to President Biden 20. "Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist?" 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 21. "I don't want you in my school doing discipline." 2019-02, The Trey Blocker Show 22. "For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 23. "That [oil and gas] industry is not gonna last." 2020-09-01, Austin Sierra Club climate forum 24. "Our system of policing is deeply broken. We must replace it with something new and something better." 2020-09-02, Honest Austin 25. "The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage" 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 26. "I'm not an expert on this particular case, but I know that there were no Black members of the jury [in Anthony’s case]." 2026-08-05, The Breakfast Club 27. "Our office is the first in the history of the Capitol to add pronouns to our official business cards." 2021-03-31, Twitter/X 28. "If we took just half of what we spend on wars, prisons, and policing, and spent it on education, healthcare, and jobs, we could make prisons obsolete." 2022-04-11, Ferguson prison graduation 29. "Jesus came to transform the world. Christian nationalism is here to maintain the status quo. They have co-opted the son of God. They've turned this humble rabbi into a gun-toting, gay-bashing, science-denying, money-loving, fear-mongering fascist." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 30. "In Genesis, God creates life by breathing life into the first human being, which we later call Adam. That life starts when you take your first breath." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience 31. "ICE executed a man in broad daylight on our streets just this morning. It's time to tear down this secret police force and replace it with an agency that actually is going to focus on public safety." 2026-01-24, Texas AFL-CIO debate, Georgetown 32. "I'm Season 2 [of Judaism, Christianity and Islam]—the most violent season. My religion has done more damage to both of those religions than they've done to each other." 2026-02-23, The New Yorker 33. "I think there are some folks … that would think that if you deny your child's gender identity that that's incredibly harmful. And whether or not we can—we label it with the term abuse, I mean, it's abusive for sure." 2019-04-03, Texas House Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Committee 34. "Our system, our public education system, particularly here in Texas is not built for poor students. It's not built for students of color." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising 35. "I felt like I didn't have the time or space or training or resources to have the really important conversations with my students … I was trapped in a system that was focused purely on academics, reading, writing, arithmetic." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising 36. "Prison is violence." 2022-04-11, Ferguson prison graduation 37. "But inevitably we're going to spend hours hearing bills that are just kind of conspiracy theory, right, driven, and kind of kooky stuff." 2022-07-26, Texas House Public Education Committee 38. "I know personally that I've learned as much about my faith from Salman's tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers." 2023-09-16, The State of Belief 39. "God is a verb." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 40. "And again, I haven't studied this enough to say this definitively, but there are interpretations of certain passages from the Torah where some folks will even say that there is a, there is some subtle instructions for how to perform an abortion in the ancient world." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience 41. "People who're like, "You're in seminary, you're studying to become a minister. Why wouldn't you want the Ten Commandments in every classroom?" … I said I thought the bill was un-Christian." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience 42. "Incarnation, by the way, is not just limited to Jesus, it's everybody." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience 43. "The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, said that in Christ there is neither male nor female. And so, if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me. They should take it up with the Apostle Paul." 2026-04-22, CNN The Lead 44. "An assault weapon ban, a large capacity magazine ban" 2020, Virtual voter meet-and-greet 45. "I don't care what taxes you have to raise, but you're not going to make our students and our teachers, you're not going to make the sick and the elderly pay for this pandemic." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising 46. "Platforms like YouTube, 4chan, and Parlor are radicalizing an entire generation of white boys." 2021-03-18, Twitter/X 47. "Trans children are God's children, made in God's own image. There's nothing wrong with them. Nothing at all. They are perfect. They are beautiful, and they are sacred." 2021-10-14, Texas House 48. "The only person to teach Jesus something was a woman. Even the son of God had something to learn from one of God's daughters." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 49. "We only have Jesus because a woman consented to creating him." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 50. "Resurrection is when we see Christ in everyone and everything." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 51. "Billions of people across the globe celebrate Passover, Easter, and Ramadan. We may use different lyrics, but we are singing the same hymn." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 52. "The current administration has grown the size of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, except it's not people doing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It is a secret police force that is terrorizing communities." 2025-12-14, Jubilee: Surrounded 53. "I will use every bit of financial and diplomatic leverage that this country has to end the atrocities in Palestine. … I will not use your tax dollars to fund these war crimes." 2025-12-19, Houston campaign town hall 54. "I would not vote to send any offensive weapons to Benjamin Netanyahu that he is currently using to slaughter children in Gaza." 2026-01-24, Texas AFL-CIO debate, Georgetown 55. "And I taught a lot of undocumented students. And those students tended to be my most patriotic students." 2026-03-19, The Bulwark Podcast, Dallas 56. "I think the Supreme Court needs to be overhauled. … I am open to a discussion about expanding the number of justices." 2026-09-09, Fox Special Report, Dallas 57. "The first thing is to elect candidates who recognize institutional racism and are committed to dismantling it." 2018, Reddit AMA 58. "As a Texas legislator, they’re also my constituents. Like so many immigrants throughout our history, undocumented Americans came to this country for the same simple reasons: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 2019-07-12, Twitter 59. "This bill [SB 14, restricting gender-transition care for minors,] I think is the most dangerous bill that's being heard on this floor this session." 2023-05-12, Texas House 60. "Meet Tim Dunn & Farris Wilks—two billionaires from West Texas. … Their ultimate goal is even more ambitious: transforming Texas into an authoritarian, Christian Nationalist state." 2023-10-05, Twitter/X 61. "Jesus lost, and Trump is obsessed with winning. … And on Good Friday, Jesus lost his reputation, lost his ministry, lost his friends, lost his life." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 62. "Matthew 25 tells us how we will be judged and saved: by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger, by visiting the prisoner. Nothing about being a Christian. Nothing about going to church. Nothing about reading the Bible." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin 63. "It was a new state curriculum that would teach Christian Bible stories as historical fact, as the only truth to our youngest students, … And to push propaganda, to push indoctrination on those youngest students is deeply immoral and should trouble all of us." 2025-08-05, Faithfully (CAP Action / Interfaith Alliance)