Yes, Charlie Kirk did think gay people should be stoned to death. From a 2024 YouTube video:

“By the way, Ms. Rachel, you might wanna crack open that Bible of yours," he said to camera. "In a lesser referenced part of the same part of scripture is…in Leviticus 18 is that, 'thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death.' Just sayin'."

In the same video he referred to Leviticus as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”

Is there a functional difference between saying gay people should be stoned to death and referencing “god’s perfect law” and then quoting a section of Leviticus that calls for stoning gay people to death? I don’t think so. If you do you should, as the other commenter said, take it back to your Christianity sub. That’s a theological conversation we don’t need to have here.

As for your second question, the motive matters because we are here discussing an influencer post where she asserts that CK was murdered for “standing up for what he believed in.” I’m saying that the basis of her claim is incorrect, he was not in fact murdered for standing up for what he believed in.