Erickson On Charleston: We Can't Stop 'Real Evil' If We Accept Transgender People [View all]

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Erick Erickson, editor-in-chief of the conservative blog RedState, said on Thursday that America’s acceptance of transgender people was creating an inability to discuss the “evil” that led to the Charleston, S.C. shootings.

Erickson’s comments, made on his radio show, “The Erick Erickson Show,” and in a blog post on RedState, addressed the Wednesday shooting that left nine people dead at a historic black church.

Erickson related the tragedy perpetrated by the “crazy” and “evil” white gunman, identified by authorities as Dylann Roof, to former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner, who recently came out as a transgender woman. Erickson lamented that we couldn’t have a conversation about mental health and evil because of society’s acceptance of Jenner.

“We can’t have the conversations we need to have in this country about mental health and evil,” Erickson said. “We cannot have those conversations. It is impossible to have conversations like that in a society that can look at a 65-year-old male Olympian and say ‘Hey, he’s a girl now. We have to start calling him Caitlyn.’”


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