Six red states are already advancing legislation for ‘Charlie Kirk Free Speech Day’ following activist’s assassination
By Catholics for Catholics
He was a champion of free speech, which is a good reason to have Charlie Kirk’s birthday as a national holiday, according to a student, pro-life group.
“It should be a national holiday, the Charlie Kirk Free Speech Day, where, across the country, we recognize that even if you disagree with others on a college campus or in the workplace, that as Americans, we all value the First Amendment,” Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins told Fox News Digital. “And Charlie would love that. I mean, that’s what he was doing every single day on campuses,” she added.
Composed of over 1,600 pro-life advocate student groups on college and high school campuses across the country, SFLA rely on free speech securities to reach young people who are directly targeted by the abortion industry, Hawkins said.
According to Fox News, legislation to push for a Charlie Kirk holiday has already been taken up and promoted by six red states on legislation at the state level to advance the cause, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Arizona, and West Virginia.
“We’ve also been pushing a few folks in Congress to do this,” Hawkins said. She continued, “It’s a little bit difficult because Democrats have closed down the government, and we don’t have 60 Republican votes in the U.S. Senate. But I do think it’s important,” she explained.
Kirk was holding an event on the campus of Utah University on Sept. 10 when he was slain. He is survived by his wife, Erika, and two young children.
Since Kirk’s assassination, Turning Point USA, an organization founded by him, has been hurled into notoriety and received tremendous support.
For the past five years Kirk built a following travelling the country, debating college students on culture war issues such as racial division, gender ideology and the merits of Christian and American values in general.
Hawkins added that a national holiday dedicated to Kirk would honor his work. “I personally go to college campuses just like Charlie did, and I was actually on a campus doing the exact same thing that Charlie was doing by a ‘prove me wrong’ tent the moment he was assassinated,” Hawkins said.
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