This past Thursday I attended a Prayer Vigil for Charlie Kirk on the campus of Georgia Tech. Women Lead Right at GA Tech proudly supported the vigil hosted by Tech’s Turning Point USA Chapter. Every speaker spoke of faith and freedom; each exhorted the crowd not to return hate with hate, but with God’s unfailing love. We sang praise music as groups formed arm-in-arm circles to pray in the flickering candlelit night.

Our social media feeds and email inboxes are filled with prayer vigil invitations like the one at Georgia Tech, clips of Charlie’s incredibly respectful conversations with those with whom he disagreed and calls for each of us to courageously continue Charlie’s mission of civil discourse. In fact, Women Lead Right posted just this type of message on our own social media feeds[1].

Yet, there are millions of my (and your) neighbors, fellow worshipers in my (and your) churches and synagogues, and even some of my family members (perhaps yours, as well), who are being told a very different story about Charlie Kirk, his murderer and the Christians and conservatives grieving because of his assassination. Their social media feeds and email inboxes include clips, allegations and quotes attributed to Charlie and dubbed by their trusted progressive pundits as racist, antisemitic and trans-phobic.

Does this explain why Georgia schoolteachers and employees of Georgia corporations like Delta Airlines celebrate an American citizen’s murder in broad daylight?  Does it offer any insight into how an ABC newscaster could cast the murderer as endearing[2] because he sent loving texts to his transgender roommate?

We should not simply dismiss these folks as “crazy” or “immoral” or “evil”. No. We should “be like Charlie” and challenge ourselves to engage with the progressive messaging influencing these Americans – messaging which embraces, supports, and attempts to justify hateful and violent behavior. One need not look further than this week’s headlines to find answers.

Here’s our first clue:  CNN’s political correspondent, Juliette Kayyem[3], and the women at the View all seem to find it very difficult to speak truth regarding the political ideology of Charlie’s Kirk’s murderer[4]. Also, Heather Cox Richardson (whose Substack is the most followed individual political commentor) claims: “But in fact, the alleged shooter was not someone on the left. The alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is a young white man from a Republican, gun enthusiast family, who appears to have embraced the far right, disliking Kirk for being insufficiently radical.” [5] Ummm…what? How many Americans read and accept her point of view as truth and reality?

And consider what this brave GA Tech student[6] reveals: the near constant visual bombardment of posters and stickers pasted across our publicly funded university property, calling for action against Trump’s “Nazi regime”. Or consider the activities at any number of other left-wing indoctrinated college campuses.[7]

Just yesterday, the New York Times headline calls the suspension of an employee by a private company to be “State Censorship”. Yes, apparently Trump is so cozy with Disney that he is now head of HR!

To “be like Charlie”, we must courageously call out our insidious mainstream media machine that chooses to peddle half-truths and outright lies. We must remind our fellow Americans that our country was birthed when we declared our independence from England with Thomas Jefferson’s famous words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident…”.  All Americans should hold, as self-evident, the truth that murdering an American for his religious or political views is wrong.

We, at Women Lead Right, pledge to pay forward Charlie’s cause by educating and inspiring more Georgia women to speak up with courage and conviction…to, in short, “be like Charlie.”

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DOgwVBYEc_t/?igsh=OGtucWJ0cG01bzJs

[2] . . very touching, in a way, that I think many of us didn’t expect—a very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who is transitioning, calling him ‘my love.’ And ‘I want to protect you, my love.’ So, it was this duality of someone who the attorney said not only jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd, but was doing it in front of children, which is one of the aggravating circumstances of this case. And then, on the other hand, he was, you know, speaking so lovingly about his partner.” https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1968030613178331411?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[3] https://x.com/juliettekayyem/status/1967915331185529154?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[4] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOiaMgJjSFc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[5] https://x.com/narrenhut/status/1967659232939094459?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[6] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOpojaLDCd6/

[7] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKkElv2Ik0N/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[8] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/us/charlie-kirk-views-guns-gender-climate.html