James Talarico’s desperate drive to detransition from his woke past
By Rich Lowry
Published May 30, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET
James Talarico has decided that God isn’t non-binary after all.
Anyone who has relied on the Texas senatorial candidate for theological guidance might be experiencing whiplash.
Talarico is trying to clean up a series of idiotic statements — including about God’s supposed non-conforming gender — that are vulnerabilities ahead of a competitive race against the scandal-plagued Republican candidate, Ken Paxton.
Once upon a time, Talarico, a former Presbyterian seminarian, wanted to make the Bible into a tool of radical gender ideology.
It was during a 2021 debate in the Texas legislature on whether biological men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports that Talarico declared that “God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary.”
Talarico now says that he was just being provocative, although in the clip, he is as measured and earnest as a mainline Protestant pastor delivering a sermon at a 9 a.m. Sunday service.
In explaining what he was getting at, the Democrat says that God is above and beyond human categories.
Well, sure: God doesn’t have a male or female body.
This doesn’t change the fact, though, that God refers to Himself in the masculine gender (“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them”), and the Bible calls Him such things as Father, King and Husband.
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