Jesus Christ’s 2,000-year-old call to believers to love their enemies was vividly demonstrated Sunday when Erika Kirk publicly forgave her husband’s alleged killer before an audience of millions.
Charlie Kirk, 31, was gunned down Sept. 10 while speaking at a Utah campus. Prosecutors filed murder charges against suspect Tyler Robinson, who admitted to shooting Kirk in a text message to his roommate and transgender partner, saying that he “had enough of [Kirk’s] hatred.”
After losing her husband — and as some fringe figures celebrated his killing — Erika Kirk delivered a tearful message of forgiveness at his memorial service .
“My husband, Charlie. He wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life. On the cross, Our Savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not