{"id":121090,"date":"2025-09-20T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-charlie-kirks-voice-cannot-be-silenced\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:46:30","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-charlie-kirks-voice-cannot-be-silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/2025\/09\/20\/letter-to-the-editor-charlie-kirks-voice-cannot-be-silenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Charlie Kirk&#8217;s voice cannot be silenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear neighbors and fellow Americans,<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m deeply disturbed and saddened by the assassination of a great man who was the embodiment of the American spirit, a man who stood for independent thinking, free speech, and a love for our Heavenly Father and Lord Jesus Christ. All Americans should abhor political violence because it goes against the principles God has set forth in His Word, and it goes against the principles that our nation was founded upon.<\/p>\n<p>A verse comes to mind, Romans 12:20-21 &ldquo;If thine enemy hungers feed him, if he thirsts, give him drink, for in so doing thou shalt reap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I beseech you to set aside your worldly inclinations toward revenge and instead to look towards the will of our Father.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&rsquo;m tempted to fly down to Utah, pick up the torch, and set up shop at the university to start having conversations with the college kids. I hope that anyone that wants to do such a thing will step forward with all boldness and haste, because that&rsquo;s what Charlie Kirk did, and that&rsquo;s what this country needs. I believe we are about to see this happen on a grand scale. Charlie Kirk&rsquo;s voice cannot be silenced, because we are all Charlie Kirks.<\/p>\n<p>My prayers go out to the Kirk family and for our country as a whole. Rest in peace, brother. We&rsquo;ll see you in heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Americans should abhor political violence <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":121091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[669],"class_list":["post-121090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion","tag-letter-to-the-editor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letter to the Editor: Charlie Kirk&#8217;s voice cannot be silenced - Juneau Empire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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