Pedro Pascal calls JK Rowling a “heinous loser”
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🗓️ 26 June 2025
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On the anniversary of Harry Potter’s release, both JK Rowling and Pedro Pascal are in the news—not for their work, but their opposing convictions. Rowling has been “vociferously castigated” for defending biological sex; Pascal, in support of his transgender sibling, called her a “heinous loser.” As our nation’s culture continues to shift away from the “morals and religion” of our founding fathers, we remember that the gospel has thrived most fully across Christian history when the culture has been most antagonistic to its truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings on this Thursday, June the 26th, 2025. |
| 0:06.1 | Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm narrator, Chris Elkins, voicing today's daily article written by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:19.0 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone, the first novel in the Harry Potter series, |
| 0:24.4 | hit bookshelves in the UK on this day in 1997 after being rejected by 12 publishers. |
| 0:32.2 | I referenced this despite the fact that I've never read one of the novels or seen one of the movies |
| 0:38.6 | made from them. I am focusing instead on their author J.K. Rowling, who has been in the news |
| 0:44.8 | in recent years for defending her belief that sex is determined by biology. As a result, she has |
| 0:51.7 | been vociferously castigated as anti-trans, and her work has been cancelled by many. |
| 0:58.0 | Add Pedro Pascal to the list. |
| 1:00.0 | One of the most popular actors working today, his profile in the latest Vanity Fair, is compelling. |
| 1:07.0 | Pascal was nine months old when his parents fled Chile as political refugees. |
| 1:12.3 | He struggled financially as a young actor and was 24 when his mother died by suicide. |
| 1:18.3 | The article lods his, quote, emotional depth on screen and exuberance everywhere else |
| 1:24.3 | and calls him a star unlike any other. |
| 1:29.8 | But here's the part that is making headlines. |
| 1:34.9 | In support of his transgender sibling, Pascal said of Rallying in the interview, |
| 1:42.2 | bullies make me expletive deleted sick. He has also called her a heinous loser. It's been said that a candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. However, |
| 1:46.2 | as the pastor and author Nate Pickawicz noted, John the Baptist lost his head for having a biblical |
| 1:52.2 | view of marriage. Clemson Political Science Professor C. Bradley Thompson has been a visiting |
| 1:58.0 | scholar at Harvard, Princeton, and the University of London. |
| 2:01.8 | In a recent blog, he writes, |
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