In his opening monologue on Friday night, Tucker Carlson suggested that transgenderism is a religion, and that it is the fastest growing religion in the United States.

He pointed to Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale, and a sermon about her that was delivered at a Lutheran church in North Dakota.

The pastor actually compared the death of Hale to the death of Jesus.

From FOX News:

Transgenderism is the most dangerous extremist movement in the United States

Good evening and welcome to a special edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Happy Good Friday. This is the saddest and at the same time, by far the most hopeful day on the Christian calendar. There was a time not so long ago when the overwhelming majority of Americans observed Good Friday. They got up, they went to church, they talked about it at the office and at dinner that night, it was part of their culture, that’s no longer true.

Tonight, you wonder how many Americans even know it’s Good Friday. So after hundreds of years, this has finally become a non-Christian country, but it’s not a secular country. You know sometimes people call it that, but they are wrong. There are no secular countries. Every country has a religion because every person has a religion, even if it’s atheism. Everybody worships something. We’re born that way. We can’t get away from it. So what is America’s religion now?

Well, as it happens, we have video. This is from St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Fargo, North Dakota. It was taken on April 2nd. That was the first Sunday after the mass killing in Nashville in which three adults and three children were murdered at a Christian school for being Christians. In the old America, Christian pastors would have preached about this. They would have acknowledged the evil on display, and they would have prayed for those who’d been killed.

A form of that is still happening today, but the roles have been inverted. In America’s new religion, the victims are not the children who died in Nashville. The victim is the woman who killed them, because Audrey Hale called herself transgender. She was, by definition, a holy martyr. Watch this pastor in a formerly Christian church compare Audrey Hale to Jesus.

PASTOR: Leaders were looking for any excuse, valid or not, to crucify Jesus, and they found that reason… It’s baffling to me that someone’s existence can be so threatening that people decide they need to be controlled, that they need to have laws made against them or even worse, that the people that they find to be so threatening should die.

Here’s the video:

Tucker Carlson:

"After hundreds of years, this has finally become a non-Christian country. But it's not a secular country. There are no secular countries. Every country has a religion. Transgenderism is this country's fastest growing religion." pic.twitter.com/ZbG5aCPaSm

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 8, 2023

It has been amazing to watch everyone from Biden to people in liberal media fall all over themselves to praise the trans community after a trans person shot and killed six people, including three children.

Pray for our country.

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Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez (AOC) threatened Republicans yesterday following the expulsion of two radical Tennessee House Democrats after they helped lead an insurrection last week inside the State Capitol.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported Rep. Justin Jones and Rep. Justin Pearson were booted from the Tennessee State legislature for helping lead an insurrection inside the Tennessee State Capitol. This was the first time in the state’s history that a partisan expulsion happened.

Unfortunately, Rep. Johnson survived being expelled by one vote.

Cristina Laila previously described the details of the horrific insurrection that the three Tennessee Democrats helped lead.

The Democrats can be seen in the middle of the House floor in the video below.

BREAKING: Left-wing protesters disrupt TN legislative session shouting "No action, no peace!"pic.twitter.com/xNfIbbZKBP

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 30, 2023

Here’s another video of the insurrection:

Protesters have stormed the Tennesse state capitol in Nashville to protest for gun control. pic.twitter.com/lzMmxAbWYt

— Zach Jewell (@zach_d_jewell) March 30, 2023

AOC, however, had no issue with these actions and instead directed her ire toward the GOP in the vilest possible manner.

Republicans may think they won today in Tennessee, but their fascism is only further radicalizing and awakening an earthquake of young people, both in the South and across the nation.

If you thought youth organizing was strong, just wait for what’s coming. Gen Z don’t play.

Republicans may think they won today in Tennessee, but their fascism is only further radicalizing and awakening an earthquake of young people, both in the South and across the nation.

If you thought youth organizing was strong, just wait for what’s coming. Gen Z don’t play https://t.co/gPwoFI7uib

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 6, 2023

Fox News first reported on AOC’s threat.

Holding people accountable for their actions has nothing to do with fascism. But calling for leftist youth organizers to take on Republicans is definitely a threat and a possible call for violence.

As Gateway Pundit readers know, numerous far-left organizers have taken part in widespread violence across America. Just look at Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

“Justified” actor Nick Searcy tweeted:

This is a call for violence from @AOC. https://t.co/ekPB8wDRqj

— Nick Searcy, INSURRECTIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) April 7, 2023

Prominent activist Kim Klacik also sensed AOC was calling for leftist terrorists to attack Republicans.

Are you advocating for violence, Alexandria?

— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) April 7, 2023

Here are more conservatives who saw AOC’s comments as a dog whistle to attack them:

Exactly – Antifa dog whistle.

— abrader (@AppldSymphonics) April 7, 2023

That sounds like a threat.. you sound you are starting a violent uprising. If anyone is hurt from this day forward it will all be because of the words you have conveyed here.

— (The Poogler) (@DaPoogler) April 7, 2023

One can be certain if a Republican sent a tweet similar to AOC, that person would be getting an FBI visit. But AOC will get away with it because she is a Democrat.

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