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Samantha Ponder, the former ESPN broadcaster who has never been shy about her faith or her defense of girls’ sports, has once again found herself in the crosshairs for speaking plainly about a painful moment in our country. After the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, Ponder said she felt fear but also courage, and disclosed that her direct messages turned “more disturbing than ever” when she expressed sorrow — a sobering reminder of how toxic our public square has become.
Charlie Kirk’s death on campus was a tragedy that sent shockwaves through conservative communities, and the funeral and memorials quickly became a rallying point for Republican and faith leaders who saw his life as a call to action. Tens of thousands turned out to honor Kirk, and prominent figures portrayed his loss as both spiritual and political fuel for the movement he helped build.
This is the same Samantha Ponder who has repeatedly pushed back against the dangerous trend of allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports, writing bluntly that “XY = male, XX = female” and insisting biology is not bigotry. Her stance has cost her professionally in an industry that increasingly punishes common-sense science and traditional values, and many conservatives rightly see her treatment as another example of ideological purging at major media outlets.
Rather than show compassion for a grieving voice, online mobs chose to weaponize sympathy, policing who is worthy of mourning and who is not. That kind of moral calculus — deciding who gets human decency based on politics — is the new cancel culture, and it is cowardly and un-American for our institutions to bend to it instead of defending basic decency.
The debate over men in women’s sports is not abstract; it is about opportunities stolen from girls who trained their whole lives to compete on a fair field of play. Conservatives know this is a battle for the soul of Title IX and for common-sense fairness in athletics, and voices like Ponder’s are essential because they speak for moms and daughters who are being sidelined by a radical orthodoxy.
Meanwhile, the media and the left rush to turn every human story into a political cudgel, praising or pillorying people depending on their alignment with progressive orthodoxy rather than the truth. If the death of a public figure can be used to silence criticism, then nothing — not faith, not fair play, not freedom of speech — is safe from politicized outrage.
Conservatives must refuse to be cowed; we must defend fair competition for women, protect the right to mourn a fellow American without being vilified, and stand with strong, faith-driven voices like Samantha Ponder who refuse to surrender common sense to the cultural commissars. Pray, speak out, and keep supporting those who champion truth and decency — that is how we honor the memory of those we lose and preserve a free and moral society for the next generation.
