Erika Kirk, Charlie Kerk widow, talks about the memorial service of the right -wing activist at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday.
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Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, said she forgave her alleged husband’s killer.
“This man, this young man … forgive him,” said Kirk.
“I forgive him because he did what Christ did, and Charlie will do,” she said. “The answer to hatred is not hatred. The answer we know from the Bible is always love and love. Love for our enemies and the love of those who persecute us.”
Last week, the prosecutors offered murder against Tyler Robinson, 22. Officials said Robinson confessed to shooting Kirk to his colleague in the room, saying in a text message: “I had enough hatred.”
Erika Kirk, 36, described the mother of two young children, with tears at the moment when her husband’s body was seen in the hospital in Utah, hours after he was shot in the neck while discussing university students at Utah Valley University.
Kirk said: “I saw the wound that ended his life … I was shocked, and I felt terrifying and a level of heart pain that I did not know was present.” “But even at death, I was able to see the man I loved. I saw one gray hair on the side of his head, which I never told him. I also saw in his lips a dim smile. I revealed to me a great mercy from God in this tragedy. When I saw that, he told me that Charlie did not suffer.”
In her conversation with tens of thousands of people on the field, Kirk said that she found comfort in prayer and also in the way people responded to the death of her husband.
She said: “We did not see violence, and we did not see riots.
Kirk said: “Pray again, read the Bible again, go to the church next Sunday, and on Sunday after that and set out from the temptations and killers in this world,” Kirk said.
Her statements came in a remarkable contradiction with both the vice president and the president, who booked her speech. Vice Vice President, Vans, said that “evil is still going between us” and that society “should not ignore it for the moment of the fake groups.” President Trump said: “I hate my own and I do not want the best for them.”
Focus on the family
Kirk had another mobilization message, saying that “the greatest reason for Charlie’s life was trying to revive the American family.”
She said: “When he spoke to the youth, he was always keen to tell them about God’s vision of marriage and how if they only could dare live with her, this will enrich every part of their lives in the same way that we have sang it.”
She told the men to follow the example of her husband in a Christian marriage, as they are the spiritual presidents of the family, who love and lead their wives and protect their children.
“Please be a leader who deserves to be followed,” Kirk said. “Your wife is not your servant. Your wife is not your employee. Your wife is not a slave. She is your assistant. You are not competitors. You are one body, she works together for the glory of God.”
Kirk compared her husband to a martyr who died while he was doing the will of God. “He was ready to die, he left this world without remorse” because he did “100 % of what he wanted to do every day.”
“He died with incomplete works, but not with incomplete deeds,” Kirk said.
Last week, Kirk was awarded the new CEO of Turning Point Usa, the right -wing youth organization founded by her late husband.