Bigot or saint?

Two prominent Americans used national platforms to describe the martyred Charlie Kirk in shockingly opposing language. 

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez used her position in the House of Representatives to call Kirk a bigot before he has even been buried. Ms. Ocasio Cortez vigorously opposed a Congressional resolution honoring Mr. Kirk, saying:

”The majority proceeded with a resolution that brings great pain to the millions of Americans who endured segregation, Jim Crow, and the legacy of bigotry today. [Kirk’s] rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans, far from the ‘working tirelessly to promote unity’ asserted by the majority in this resolution.”

By contrast, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan had a completely different take on Kirk’s career. He went on Fox and Friends and shared this perspective:

“When I heard the tragic news, I said, ‘I wonder who he was.’ And then all of a sudden, this overwhelming, this overwhelming sense of sorrow and kind of renewal. And I thought, I gotta learn about this guy. And the more I learned about him, I thought, this guy’s a modern day Saint Paul. He was a missionary, he’s an evangelist, he’s a hero. He’s one that knew what Jesus meant when he said, the truth will set you free. And to do it, Now, I understand he was pretty blunt and he was pretty direct. He didn’t try to avoid any controversy. He didn’t even try to avoid confrontation. The difference is the way, the mode, the style that he did it, always with respect.”

Bigot or saint?

How can two prominent people view the same person so differently?

What do you think?

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