“Celebrating the murder of a father, husband and Christian leader who got young people to think and encouraged them to build godly lifelong relations and families, IS hate speech.”
Judith Niewiadomski Yonkers
Some people are raging because private companies decided not to give platforms (temporarily) to those reveling in the murder of a good man.
It used to be common courtesy to forgo saying nasty things about someone before his family got through the funeral. It used to be common sense and decency that there is no right to publicly scream “Shoot ICE” nor threaten violence to someone of a particular skin color or religion. That is inciting to violence and illegal.
One can’t go to a synagogue and demand that they put up a Christmas tree or an illustration of the Resurrection; nor can the synagogue’s members demand that a church put up a menorah or set up a Seder table because these are private institutions. But the members of either or both congregations can decide to have an interfaith service or simply include the other’s decorations to welcome neighbors with different religions at the holidays–or not. You can have whatever opinion you want, as erudite or ignorant as it may be. But you don’t have a right for it to be published or broadcast by any private company or particular publisher. However, you can always raise the money or pay for it to be published yourself. Or do what they did in the pre-tech era—make a few hundred broadsheets and pass them out on the street corners. You right of free speech is intact.
Deranged people hate Charlie Kirk because he promoted the Biblical position on marriage—one man and one woman. He didn’t demand that homosexual pride month be abolished, nor that a Biblical marriage month replace it or be added. He did not demand Biblical marriage parades or the real (seven color) rainbow flag be flown on government buildings. Certainly he could have demanded equal time. Maybe he should have.
James 3:13-18 “Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”
Charlie Kirk used the Socratic method, asking questions to get young people to think about the statements they were making, which were often opinions based on propaganda with little substance. He never berated nor threatened them, nor demanded they believe as he did. He offered the opportunity for a more abundant, more fulfilling life, for substantive analysis and thinking through of policies rather than buzz words. Yonkers Rising showed how many in elected office and media spewed that he deserved to be murdered. That reflects the corrupt fruit of their souls. Neither he nor his followers suggested such for them. He simply challenged the logic and benefit of their ideas–which is the purpose of free speech.
Expert, such as top tier economists Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams to sociologist and late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, have documented that there was less poverty, less crime, less delinquency and teenage pregnancy, particularly in the black community, when most children were grew up in two parent families. Do we not all want that for our communities? To what perverse mind does recognizing that make Charlie Kirk or anyone else deserving of death? Less crime, students finishing school and moving on to good jobs and homes and families built by their own efforts would seem to be something everyone would value. What is the real objective to perpetuating fatherless families and undisciplined youth?
Basic kindness and courtesy should motivate people to keep their negative comments to themselves when a man who never hated has been brutally murdered and people are in mourning. It’s truly tragic when people who are disturbed by those venomous comments are afraid to even say so or have their names published because they know the animus that will be let loose upon them.
Celebrating the murder of a father, husband and Christian leader who got young people to think and encouraged them to build godly lifelong relations and families, IS hate speech. Those who celebrate murder and violence need to take a look in the mirror and ask how their ideology brought them there—and ask God for forgiveness and change their thinking.
