Freedom Allows Someone to be Repugnant

These are Charlie Kirk's words. I find them repugnant and totally opposite to what I believe in every cell in my body. They promote hate and limitation of human and cultural development.

I also believe he had every right to say them in a free country. 

Charlie Kirk was killed. His two children will grow up fatherless. His wife has said his death has "unleashed" a wave that will continue his work and then some. Unfortunate. But she has the right to say them. I am so sorry for the first statement and horrified by the second.

The world of Charlie Kirk is no world that I want to live in. I am horrified he is being given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I was horrified that tax payer money was used to fly his body home in Air Force 2. I suppose in some sick way he died expressing his right to speak freely. He believed that deaths from guns are okay, so ironic. 

I do not understand hate. I do not understand those who want to limit others because they are different from themselves. Decades ago I read in The Boston Globe how a little boy was reported to having said he was happy to be home schooled because if he went to public school, "I might meet someone who isn't Christian." I've remembered it all these years because I felt so sorry for that child because he will be exposed to such a microscopic world of what life could give him.

I wonder what it was in Kirk's upbringing that made him so hate filled for the majority of the people on the planet that he wanted to limit their lives. I wonder why he felt it necessary to encourage that the U.S. legally share his limitations and the U.S. lose the benefits those people who would be limited could bring to society.

I can't celebrate his death, although I could celebrate if those ideas died out on their own but not with a bullet. Never with bullets.