""That man, that young man I forgive him," Kirk said, wiping away tears as the audience at Kirk's memorial at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., erupted in applause on Sunday. "I forgive him because it was what Christ did and is what Charlie would do," she said. "The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.""
""I saw the wound that ended his life I felt shock, I felt horror and a level of heartache that I didn't even know existed," Kirk said. "But even in death, I could see the man that I loved. I saw the single gray hair on the side of his head, which I never told him about. I also saw in his lips the faintest smile.""
Erika Kirk forgave the man accused of killing her husband and framed forgiveness as Christlike, declaring that love is the response to hate. Prosecutors filed murder charges against 22-year-old Tyler Robinson after officials reported he admitted the shooting and texted, "I had enough of his hatred." Erika described seeing her husband's fatal wound and noticing a single gray hair and a faint smile that she interpreted as God's mercy and evidence that he did not suffer. Tens of thousands attended the memorial at State Farm Stadium, where Erika called for renewed prayer, Bible reading, church attendance, and described a peaceful response she called revival.
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