Did Charlie Kirk really call for gay people to be stoned to death for not being heterosexual?

in #religion5 days ago

For context, this is a question I answered on Quora

No he read a passage in Leviticus chapter 20 referring to an ancient civil law prescribing the death penalty for sodomy. Most Western Christians regard the civil and ceremonial laws in the old testament to be fulfilled (i.e. no longer necessary) by the new testament covenant which is also why they ignore the bits about mixed fabrics, shellfish and women avoiding places of worship when they are menstruating. In the context of his response to someone called Ms. Rachel he was pointing out her cherry picking Old Testament verses to support her agenda, which is what every Christian does, and did call it “God’s perfect law”, but again in mainstream Christian theology God’s perfect law is fulfilled in Jesus’s sacrifice so most of them don’t consider civil and ceremonial laws from the old testament to be relevant today. Even before the cruxification passages you have parts of the story line like John 8:1–11 where Jesus stops an adulterous woman from being stoned to death, in accordance with old testament law, which most Christians believe signifies a shift away from ancient civil laws that prescribed the death penalty for a plethora of offenses.

Side Note:

There are some extreme cases like Uganda and other African countries where sodomy is illegal and sometimes a death sentence, but he has never explicitly advocated for such laws.