In 2019, Charlie Kirk said “I believe marriage is one man, one woman,” but he sought dialogue and debate with people who held opposing views.
Podcaster Dave Rubin, who is openly gay and married to a man, met Kirk in 2017 and “went on to do dozens of college campus events where we both relished discussing our differences — not only with each other, but with the huge crowds of college students as well. … What started as spirited disagreements on politics, culture, religion and activism turned into a meaningful friendship and a turning point, pardon the pun, in my career.”
Other openly gay critics of leftwing extremism, including Andrew Doyle and Andy Ngo, have praised Kirk’s commitment to free speech and respectful dialogue. And in a statement, Log Cabin Republicans said that Kirk “worked tirelessly to bring American education back to its roots of civil debate, free speech, and tolerance for differing points of view. His work was, and will continue to be, an inspiration for LGBT conservatives to proudly defend their own views against those who may loudly and hatefully disagree.”
In a quote now being widely shared, Kirk himself said this: “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens. Because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity.”
And putting it all together:
Addendums:
Well said by Debra Messing: “The idea that disagreement could justify erasure is barbaric. And the fact that so many are celebrating it is horrifying.”
OsborneInk (Matt Osbrone) writes:
… GLAAD, the once-hallowed civil rights nonprofit … claimed that Kirk “spread infinite amounts of disinformation about LGBTQ people.” GLAAD is particularly put out by “Turning Point’s college campus campaigns featuring speakers such as Riley Gaines, Chloe Cole, and Pastor Junsun Yoo, who regularly spoke against transgender people.”
I have met one of those people, Riley Gaines, and watched her speak. … Gaines was denied her Title IX rights to fair sports competition, as well as the safety of a single-sex locker room, because William ‘Lia’ Thomas has special gender gremlin inside him that makes it okay, according to the new leftist dogma everyone has been forced to accept as a civil rights project. …
… I actually know Chloe Cole personally, having met her three times and interviewed her. She did not “speak against transgender people” because she never does. Chloe tells the story of how her breasts were cut off while she was a minor child, during the very same time that GLAAD and ‘the left’ were gaslighting America that no minor children were being surgically transitioned, passing off this lie with the compliant help of the media.
More: Will this hold up? We’ll see.
