Charlie Kirk and LGBTQ+

As a conservative, I felt the loss of Charlie Kirk personally. I never knew him, but I always admired his courage in visiting college campuses – where there is “no such thing as absolute truth” – to openly discuss the unvarnished truths in the Bible and Christian morality. He was the ultimate victim of cancel culture, but he always gave students a chance to speak “their” truth.

Consequently, I was shocked by the way a family member described him after his assassination. She used a characterization that clearly came from a place of anger.  But I have come to understand that her anger emerged from an excruciating emotional wound.

Years ago, her friend of many years - extending back to early high school - “came out,” only to be rejected by his father. Later, her friend shared this pain with her and mourned that he could never have a family. Years later, he sought happiness through same-sex marriage, but that failed miserably. As despair set in, he came to have fits of anger that she couldn’t take anymore. She decided to end the nearly twenty-year friendship.  However, she holds a special place in her heart for the comical, fun-loving friend she knew many years ago, when life was simpler. 

Charlie’s assassin made it very likely that the issue he (and others) had was Charlie’s unapologetic biblical perspective on LGBTQ +. For some, Charlie’s words, twisted and reverberating through the echo chamber of an unbelieving social media, were bigoted and even hateful. Therefore, I believe many in the LGBTQ+ community viewed Charlie as someone who heartlessly condemned them for who they are. The media's disdain for Christian views on the family, combined with the community’s lack of biblical understanding, kept them from hearing the love in the message: “We are all children of God,” Charlie would often say.

Did Charlie hate LGBTQ+…?

Check out this short YouTube video of Charlie.

https://youtu.be/k0hmgxZssQ4?si=-V1FbNI4vgePSLLd

Charlie’s response is very… well, “Charlie.”  It is interesting what “Erika” in the video says. Do you agree that secular media and social media have built a kind of “us vs. them” mentality that prevents communication and fosters hate? It appears that many colleges and universities are following suit. Do you agree?

Recently a close friend shocked me by saying Charlie Kirk was a "vile human being."

Once I cooled down I asked , in a later conversation, for an example that made her feel this way. She quoted Charlie as saying that if he saw a black pilot he would wonder whether he was qualified. Wow! That didn't sound like the Charlie Kirk I knew. I checked it out on line. Sure enough, that's what he said! But the quote was totally ripped out of its context. The conversation was about mandated DEI hiring of airline pilots ; hiring preference was to be given to race and gender over ability. Charlie's point was that if pilots were hired based on things other than their ability to fly, travelers might begin to wonder about their safety. There is nothing racist about a remark like that. But liberal news media will strip a quote like that from its context and pass it along as confirmation of their hateful narrative. Sadly, most people are too busy to do any digging, and they continue listening to the same biased news while their views get further and further away from reality.

Do you have any quotes from Charlie that you would like to discuss?