In a 2024 episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, the activist cited a Biblical verse saying that it stated "that thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death" - with Kirk describing it as "God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters".
The verse actually reads: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cdx2q24l1zqt?post=asset%3A33826617-4e38-4d6a-9861-07d92d08dee4#postThe (Irish) Daily Star is wrong to say "Stephen vocally condemned Charlie's words before accidentally sharing misinformation that Charlie called for LGBTQ+ individuals to be stoned to death." If a Christian calls something "God's perfect law", then he's advocating it. It's not "misinformation" to say that. The Star then goes on to incorrectly quote what Kirk said, with just "it is an abomination", when the Kirk quote (as above, from the BBC, and in a video)
is "shall be stoned to death". The problem was that Leviticus says "put to death", and Kirk bloodthirstily upgraded that to "stoned to death". Another indication he really meant it.
(Kirk was also wrong to claim that Ms. Rachel was quoting from Deuteronomy and Leviticus - she was quoting Jesus, from Matthew 22
as she explicitly said.)
So, the Irish Star is a crap newspaper, Belfast Books is a crap bookstore, Charlies Kirk was a crap human being, and Stephen King should not have apologized, because that's just encouraging the remaining crap human beings to continue their crusade against truth and decency.
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