After another pause, she said: “That man, that young man, I forgive him.”
Those words led to an immediate response from the crowd, with many people getting on their feet to cheer her on. Erika Kirk took the moment to pat down tears from her eyes.
“I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and is what Charlie would do,” she said a moment later. “The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know, from the Gospel, is love and always love.”