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(RNS) — Perhaps no Democrat running this election cycle has experienced more anti-LGBTQ attacks than James Talarico, the Texas state representative and Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate as a Democrat.

Ads produced by his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, have harped on Talarico’s 2021 reference to God as “nonbinary,” with one ad depicting an AI-generated version of Talarico reciting the line while writing in a “King James Talarico Bible.” President Donald Trump, while campaigning for Paxton, has begun falsely claiming that Talarico instead referred to God as transgender.…