NBC: Charlie Kirk Once Condemned Anti-Gay Christians

June 12, 2024 Christianists, Extremists

NBC News reports:

Six years ago, Charlie Kirk, a right-wing provocateur who founded the conservative activist group Turning Point USA, strongly criticized the evangelical political movement he now helps lead. Kirk described Jesus as welcoming and tolerant and denounced Christians’ “sanctimonious approach” to homosexuality and other issues.

He argued politics should be advanced through a “secular worldview” and slammed attempts by the evangelical right, beginning in the 1970s, to “impose” their version of morality “through government policy.”

“We do have a separation of church and state,” Kirk told the conservative commentator Dave Rubin in 2018, “and we should support that.” Kirk, now 30, has since reversed his position.  “There is no separation of church and state,” Kirk said in 2022. “It’s a fabrication. It’s a fiction. It’s not in the Constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.”

Read the full article.

There’s a lot there and it’s quite the U-turn from Kirk’s current status as one of the nation’s most prominent and rabid Christian nationalists.

As I reported earlier today, yesterday Kirk approvingly cited a bible verse that calls for stoning gays to death, calling it “God’s perfect law.”



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