No thanks Turning Point USA, we have enough intolerance already |
REPORTS last week that Turning Point USA, a right-wing movement headed up by Erika Kirk (wife of murdered American right-winger Charlie Kirk), was planning a visit to the north surely raised a few eyebrows.
Just what we need, years after getting our swings unchained on a Sunday. Another wave of Christian fundamentalists.
Yes, younger readers, that really happened. Contrary to popular belief, Ballymena was not the swinging capital of the world, thanks to the DUP. Never on a Sunday, anyway.
And now, we were told that Erika Kirk was “being encouraged to come to Northern Ireland” while touring Europe.
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Ian Paisley Jnr was also reported to have been approached and is in favour of setting up a NI Turning Point branch.
Turning Point USA (not to be confused with the excellent mental health organisation) is not an exclusively religious organisation, but is typical of Christian conservative organisations, where faith isn’t far away.
Its branch TP Faith aims to “eliminate wokeism from the pulpit”.
One wonders if Jesus would have been considered “woke” in his day, when he (John 8: 1-11) stopped a crowd from stoning a woman accused of adultery, or when he ate with prostitutes, or related the parable of The Good........