In 1968 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Ever since then the secular media have insisted on the honorific ‘Dr. King’. I find his academic honors, tarnished by a plagiarized doctorate, totally inconsequential compared to his societal achievements that were fueled by deep Christian faith. I marched with him.
In 2025 Charlie Kirk was assassinated. A devout Christian first and foremost, he preached personal responsibility — ‘fix yourself before fixing society’ — and unlike MLK found his political voice in the Republican Party. Yet in the Daily Star’s 1000 word Associated Press report on the opening of Turning Point USA's AmericaFest in Phoenix, the first since Kirk's death, the word ‘Christian’ appeared just once, qualified as ‘white Christian.’
These two private citizens, holding no public office, transformed America's trajectory through faith-inspired action and paid the ultimate price. It is regrettable that legacy media persistently marginalizes the religiosity central to their legacies.
Jeffrey McConnell
West side
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