Of course, Charlie is against diversity, equity and inclusion.
He believes that the Bible is -- truly and invariably -- God's Law.
Please note that the literalist view of God's Law says, in Leviticus - words which Charlie holds up as exemplary - that God approves the killing of any man who sleeps with another man.
Civil Rights Act
Multiple readers forwarded us a viral graphic that makes reference to things Kirk said about the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Jewish people, gay people and the Second Amendment. We’ll get to the last three in a bit.
Kirk did say that it was a “huge mistake” to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As the National Archives explains, the law “prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal.”
According to a 2024 Wired story, Kirk made the remarks in December 2023 during America Fest, Turning Point’s annual conference.
“I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I’ve thought about it,” the story quoted Kirk as saying. “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”
In Kirk’s view, the story explained, the Civil Rights Act has led to a “permanent DEI-type bureaucracy,” referring to diversity, equity and inclusion, that has limited free speech.
The story also quoted Kirk as saying that Martin Luther King Jr. was “awful. He’s not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn’t believe.”
Those comments are not available in the recordings posted to YouTube of the conference that year. The reporter who wrote the Wired story, however, confirmed to us that while attending the event as a journalist, he had witnessed the remarks, which were made not on the main stage, but in a smaller conference room.
Kirk also did not dispute the statement when he responded to an email from Wired the day before the story was published. Reading from the email, Kirk introjected to say that it was “true” that he had described King as “a bad guy” and “also true” that it was his “self-described very, very radical view that the country made a mistake when it passed the Civil Rights Act.”
When the email asked why Kirk believes passing the legislation was a mistake, Kirk said, “Now, again, apparently, they don’t listen to the show. Because we do that at least once a week, right? Once a week, we talk about why the Civil Rights Act was a mistake.”
A few days later, Kirk released an 82-minute podcast episode titled, “The Myth of MLK,” which in part discusses “how the ‘MLK Myth’ keeps America shackled to destructive 1960s laws that have replaced the original U.S. Constitution,” according to the summary description on the podcast’s website.
Later that year, Kirk echoed similar sentiments about the Civil Rights Act. The legislation, he said on his podcast in April 2024, “created a beast, and that beast has now turned into an anti-white weapon.”
Biblical Literalism And Bibliolatry Are Open Invitations To Self-Righteousness, Wrath And Hatred
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