Glenn Beck on Charlie Hebdo: ‘We Should Not Mock’ Religion, but…

Glenn Beck today stood by Charlie Hebdo while making it incredibly clear he rejects the offensive cartoons in question, thinks they’re unfunny and disgusting, and doesn’t believe anyone should insult anyone’s religious faith (somewhat contrary to Salman Rushdie‘s statement on giving religion our “fearless disrespect” as we would for many other things).

Beck said the cartoons are unfunny and offensive because, “People hold things sacred. There is such a thing as things that should be held sacred and what people believe and hold in sacred nature, we should not mock.”

He event went so far as to say that Charlie Hebdo should not have run the cartoons in the first place, but Beck did make this clarification: “We think that mocking the sacred is wrong, but you have a right to do it.” And he quickly pivoted, holding up the paper and saying “We should all be Charlies today.”

Watch the video below, via BlazeTV:

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