"I forgive him."
I’m at Heathrow Airport this morning, flying home after speaking in the UK at a conference put on by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. This morning, I watched some of the speeches given at Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Service. In the most stunning moment, his widow Erika Kirk, through tears, told the gathered crowd that she forgave his killer. From my column at The European Conservative:
In her thirty-minute address, Erika Kirk spoke of Charlie Kirk’s Christianity, his passion for reviving the American family, and defended the Christian vision of marriage, urging young men and women to step up and embrace their roles as husbands and wives. Her eulogy, alternatively fierce and sorrowful, gave a glimpse of what a powerhouse she may prove to be at the helm of Turning Point USA, where she succeeds her husband as CEO. Millions of Americans believe Christian marriage to be oppressive, and Christianity to be hateful.
But when an LGBT extremist murdered one of America’s most prominent public Christians, a man who has been smeared daily since his death by the international press as a vile bigot, the miserable murderer found himself not loathed by the widow of the man he killed—but forgiven. For just a moment, at least, Kirk’s enemies have been stunned into silence. He would have been so proud of her.
Read the whole column here: “I Forgive Him.”
At The Christian Post, I gave commentary for the finale of their fantastic “Generation Indoctrination” podcast series, on the connection between transgenderism and the Sexual Revolution, a subject very relevant to Kirk’s murder. You can listen to that here: “From ‘Free Love’ to Gender Chaos: Tracing the Road from the Sexual Revolution to Today.”
Meanwhile, the reactions of Canadian leftists—especially trans activists—to Kirk’s murder have been predictably vile, but they have been revealing nonetheless.
Finally, I have a column on “Science’s Greatest Scandal”—at least, before gender ideology: eugenics. Not so very long ago, in Western countries, people with disabilities and mental illnesses were incarcerated for life in asylums from which there was no escape: “Science’s Greatest Scandal: The Horrifying History of Eugenics Asylums.”