Stoning gays
Claim: Charlie believed that homosexuals should be stoned to death.
Assertion
He advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.
Charlie Kirk suggests gay people should be stoned to death
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While criticizing YouTuber Ms. Rachel for quoting “love your neighbor” to defend celebrating pride month, Charlie Kirk quoted a Bible verse used to justify stoning gay people “to death.”
Kirk called the stoning verse, “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”
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Evidence
A clip from Charlie’s podcast.
… in Leviticus 18 is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just sayin’.
– Charlie Kirk
Context
Children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel posted a celebration of Pride Month at the beginning of the 2024 observance.
Happy Pride to all of our wonderful families and friends. This month and every month I celebrate you. I’m so glad you’re here. I’m so glad you’re exactly who you are.
– Ms. Rachel @msrachelforlittles (June 1, 2024)
Some viewers objected to raising the topic in a space for children.
My kids don’t know what pride is. Keep it about the rabbits, numbers and learning Ms Rachel
Wow. This is disturbing. We will not be turning you on anymore. Keep this drag queen away from my kids at all costs!!!
In a response video, Ms. Rachel gave a Biblical justification for her position.
In Matthew 22 a religious teacher asks Jesus: “what’s the most important commandment?” And Jesus says to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself.
– Ms. Rachel @msrachelforlittles (June 3, 2024)
Charlie commented that other parts of the Bible denounce homosexuality.
And it says, by the way, Ms. Rachel (you might want to crack open that Bible of yours) in a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture is in Leviticus 18 is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just sayin’.
So, Ms. Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19 (“love your neighbor as yourself”). The chapter before affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.
– Charlie Kirk (June 8, 2024)
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Charlie asserted that homosexuality is a sin.
The bible says very clearly that the behavior of homosexuality is a sin.
– Charlie Kirk
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He endorsed heterosexual monogamous marriage and rejected hate toward those who make a different choice.
I believe marriage is between one man and one woman.
But if you ask me: do I have hate in my heart for someone that doesn’t choose the lifestyle that I believe God laid out in the scriptures? Of course not.
– Charlie Kirk
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He advocated acceptance of homosexuals in the conservative movement.
Welcome to the conservative movement.
– Charlie Kirk
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If you say there’s something inherently wrong with communicating or associating [with homosexuals] just because they make different personal decisions than you then you, sir, are not a conservative.
– Charlie Kirk
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Reassertion
Snopes rates this claim as false.
We searched through footage and clips of him discussing LGBTQ+ issues and did not find evidence of him stating outright that gay people should be stoned to death; rather, he quoted the Bible as part of an argument about how others selectively choose quotations. As such, we rate this claim as false.
Julie Hollar, writing for progressive media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), disputes this. She asserts that Charlie did condone stoning homosexuals to death.
… the straightforward way to read a self-professed Christian—and biblical literalist—characterizing a chapter of the Bible as “affirm[ing] God’s perfect law” is as an endorsement of the laws in that chapter—in this case, condoning the stoning to death of non-celibate gay people.
– Snopes Thinks Kirk Was Kidding About Killing Gays Being ‘God’s Perfect Law’ by Julie Hollar (September 19, 2025)
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