Horror author Stephen King has mad a lot of audacious statements about President Trump, but in the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the Dark Tower creator made a bizarre tweet implying Kirk’s assassination was justified, and, with a new movie coming out, he’s been forced to apologize for libeling the Turning Point USA founder.
In recent years, Stephen King has said a lot of terrible things and one would hardly know that he’s a fiction writer on social media. He, like many other celebrities, mostly tweets repeatedly about his deranged hatred of Donald Trump, adding to the dangerous sentiment the left has created that led to the radicalization of Charlie Kirk’s shooter.
The day after the tragedy, King made a bizarre post as if he believed it was fine for someone to shoot Charlie Kirk, implying that adherence to Christianity and promotion of it somehow justifies murder, saying ‘He advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.”
King is referencing the Biblical passage of Leviticus 20:13, which states, “‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”
While Charlie Kirk has never gone and said he wants gays stoned to death, King is clearly making an implication that all Christians deserve death because of a Bible passage, showing how deranged the left is.
King also has a new movie coming out this weekend, which he started promoting in a video message after his post on Kirk, and it appears as if the studio learned quickly that King was having a meltdown over Charlie Kirk and it would hurt their sales.
He then retracted his statement with a half-apology, stating, “I apologize for saying Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gays. What he actually demonstrated was how some people cherry-pick Biblical passages.”
He did not address the original sentiment; however, that made the implication that somehow there’s a reason Kirk could “deserve it” because of adherence to the Bible. The tweet came across as celebratory of Kirk’s death and not just a criticism of Kirk’s viewpoints because of the timing, and he has yet to address that.
However, King keeps posting to people angry in the comments that he has apologized, showing this isn’t going to go away, and his nasty behavior likely is going to impact people’s decisions to go to his new film this weekend.
What do you think of King’s apology?
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King is a demonstrably wicked person. He is kept in check only by consequences, as demonstrated here.
What new film? *Yawn*