Sept. 14, 2025 vigil for Charlie Kirk in Ozark on the square
By Gretchen Garrity
I knew her demons would drive Professor Elizabeth Dudash-Buskirk to another rant. Once you see the pattern…
She numbers her points, which I follow below. Her Facebook post HERE. Do read it before going on, as I select certain quotes to note for the sake of brevity.
1) Elizabeth said, “Please stop talking about 'us' and 'we' being 'brothers and sisters in Christ' to mourn a man who used a platform to engage divisive language for the purpose of gaining attention/money/followers…” She makes it clear that her Christ is not the Christ of the Bible. It is another Jesus. Woke Jesus. Do not be fooled: “For there shall arise false Christs…” (Matt. 24:24).
2) Elizabeth says, “Please stop trying to have things all ways, all the time, all at once. Either Kirk was a political figure and we SHOULD NOT hold memorial services on public school property, or he was not a political figure and memorial services do not need to be public.” Here she is squirming angrily over the fact that there have been vigils and memorials for a public figure on public property. She cannot abide that our public spaces are being used to honor a public figure...publicly. I wonder if she would have moaned about the public vigils for Martin Luther King Jr on public property, including the US Capitol. Imagine what she thinks about all the public memorial sites for him. Honestly.
3) She says, “Please do not tell me I am not patriotic because I do not think a flag should be flown at half mast for a non-political figure that never served our country in any way, shape, or form.” Here she attempts to diminish the impact that Charlie Kirk had on our citizenry. His patriotism and love for America, and his tireless work to impact young people to engage in the political process is another thing her Marxist ideological framework cannot abide. Tough. He did serve his country and his country is grateful. One can serve one’s country in a myriad of ways, and thousands of people from artists and writers to soldiers and politicians have been honored by our nation.
4) Elizabeth says, “Please stop telling me that academics are all about spreading their ideology. I wish I was.” The disingenuousness! The amount of Leftist institutional capture of our schools (from K through to university) is legion. It has been documented extensively. Elizabeth is lying to you. That is what Communists do. Communism is Satan’s religion, and Satan is a liar. The professor’s false piety is just silly. Way too late to fool us again.
5) Elizabeth writes, “Stop asking me to have empathy or sympathy for Charlie Kirk. I refuse to have EMPATHY because HE told me that empathy is a ‘made-up, new-age term that does a lot of damage.’” Elizabeth takes something Charlie Kirk said about empathy and twists it. Here is the context: . Again, she is lying in order to justify her disordered hatred against Charlie Kirk. As a Catholic, Elizabeth should know what a disordered passion entails.
6) Elizabeth next states, “I refuse to sit back and allow people to just continue to run over our freedoms.” She does not enumerate any freedoms that have been run over, but that is beside the point. The point is to state the assertion, and you, dear reader, are to assume it is true because the professor/expert told you it was true.
7) Here she says, “If you want to have vigils for whoever you want, you go right ahead, but stop saying they are for one individual and then when people ask why there weren’t vigils for the children, the victims of violence, the immigrants, the poor, the marginalized, respond “it’s for everyone.” NO. IT. ISN’T.” First, I don’t know who is having these conversations with her. I hope she reads this and points us to them. Elizabeth again attempts to suggest that every time there is a victim of violence, there should be a vigil for them, or something like that. With crime stats as they are, there would be vigils ongoing every day.
Perhaps we should build a chapel where we could light candles and pray for victims. Oh wait, that’s the local Catholic Church of which Elizabeth professes to be a member. No, what bothers her so much is the unprecedented outpouring of grief and love that Charlie Kirk’s death has brought forth. It galls her. Her words drip with it like vinegar on a sponge.
8) Getting down to brass tacks here. Elizabeth is a champion of civil civic discourse, but not Charlie? She writes, “I 100% believe in and support a civil civic discourse. Charlie Kirk DID NOT.” She “proves” this by again lying about his words on empathy. You have the video, watch it for yourself. She lies yet again. She accuses Charlie of not having goodwill. The arrogance! There are hundreds of videos of Charlie speaking with diverse people in a clear and calm manner—with goodwill. Elizabeth’s problem, like all communists, is that Charlie used logic and reasoning to defeat her ideology. Therefore, the only thing left for Leftists like her is to attack him personally and misrepresent him to her audience.
And lastly, she challenges readers, “Come at me, if you will, but do it understanding that this is my stage, my soapbox, I can delete comments, I can ignore, I can respond, I can direct the spotlight, I can engage in discourse, I get to control the narrative. See how that works?” Honestly, is she trying to say that her Facebook platform was in the same vein as Charlie’s public debates on college campuses?
He let anyone come up and speak and challenge him. He didn’t censor them as she is threatening to do. Professor Dudash-Buskirk, the champion of free speech, the maven of all things democratic and civic-minded threatening to delete, ignore, direct and control the narrative? God forbid!
Perhaps she should begin having campus chats and allowing anyone to come up to her and challenge her on politics. She’s a professor. She has the cozy platform at MSU. Go for it!
Folks, this is the moral state of the Left. Charlie ate your lunch and you will never forgive him for it. What is most needed for those who are under the thrall of the religion of Satan (aka Communism), is to repent. When convenient Elizabeth falls back on her Catholic bonafides. Her political ideals, no matter how she likes to coat them with “empathy” and “democracy” and “freedom” and “civil civic discourse,” are simply evil.
They debase humanity, they call for not freedom but political and economic slavery. Not moral freedom but licentiousness. They set white against black, male against female, Muslim against Christian. Her ideas carve us up into groups without a unifying understanding of humanity and nationhood.
Her political ideology would take from both rich and poor, and concentrate wealth and power among an oligarchy of soulless demons, who care nothing for human rights. In short, Elizabeth is a vanity-ridden intellectual who has for too long gone unchallenged. There are many like her. It’s time to respond to them with clarity and truth.
They’ve lost the battle of ideas. Their ideology was and is defeated through debate and dialog and civic discourse on college campuses and over dinner tables. And Elizabeth knows it. And so she lies about Charlie in order to assuage her fractured conscience and comfort herself that she is doing the right thing by stomping on the Man.
Well, the devil stomped on the wrong man. There is power in the blood of Jesus, and when evildoers spill the blood of one of His champions, you unleash a power you will never recover from. The best thing you can do is repent and come over to His side. Otherwise you will eventually end up wailing and gnashing your teeth with no peace and no hope in the world.
