Lukium: First, you brand your opponents as wicked, malicious, soulless. You tell the public they're "radicalized people," "terrorists," a "wicked ideology." You convince your followers that the very existence of the opposition is a mortal threat to family, to faith, to civilization itself. And there is only one final stop on that train. Dehumanization always has the same destination: extermination. read more
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I'd say he was pretty cavalier about the it, emphasis mine:
In a June 8, 2024, episode of his podcast (at around the 1:00:00 mark), Kirk reacted to Accurso posting a video in which she cited Bible scripture to explain why she had wished a "Happy Pride" that month to people in the LGBTQ+ community.www.factcheck.org
"My faith is really important to me, and it's also one reason why I love every neighbor," she said in her video. "In Matthew 22, a religious teacher asked Jesus, what's the most important commandment? And Jesus says, to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself.'" "It doesn't say love every neighbor except," she went on to say.
In his reply, Kirk said Accurso left out something else the Bible says. "She's not totally wrong," Kirk said. "The first part is Deuteronomy 6:3"5. The second part is Leviticus 19. So you love God, so you must love his law. How do you love somebody? You love them by telling them the truth, not by confirming or affirming their sin."
He continued: "And it says, by the way, Ms. Rachel, might want to crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just saying. So, Ms. Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself. The chapter before affirms God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters."
"Are you actually suggesting that if he had gone on the record of being against gays being executed for being gay it would have cost him in conservative circles?"
No, the exact opposite. If he had said gays shouldn't be stoned, that would have cost him in some conservative circles.