(LifeSiteNews) — Evangelical Christian Charlie Kirk has called upon fellow Protestants to venerate Mary, the Mother of God more, calling her the solution to “toxic feminism.”

On a recent episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, the popular conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder upheld the Mother of God as a model for young women while exhorting Protestants, who frequently ignore or even denigrate the Mother of God, to honor her more.

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“I think we as Protestant evangelicals under-venerate Mary. She was very important. She was a vessel for our Lord and Savior,” Kirk said. “I think that we as evangelicals and Protestants, we’ve over-corrected. We don’t talk about Mary enough. We don’t venerate her enough.”

“Mary was clearly important to early Christians,” he continued. Indeed, as author and former White House speechwriter Joshua Charles has documented, the early Church Fathers venerated Mary as the “Mother of God,” a “spotless” and “holy” “ever-virgin,” who helped bring about salvation to the human race through her “obedience.”

“There’s something there. In fact, one of the ways I believe we fix toxic feminism in America is, Mary is the solution,” Kirk said.

“Have more young ladies be pious, be reverent, be full of faith, slow to anger, slow to words at times. She’s a phenomenal example, and I think a counter to so much of the toxicity of feminism in the modern era.”

Author Carrie Gress has made a similar case in her book The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity, in which she shows how our culture is permeated by an “anti-Marian” spirit, and proposes that the imitation of Mary is the “antidote.”

Gress pointed out that qualities promoted by the women of our culture, “being outspoken, assertive, independent, and ambitious,” did not produce the happiness she expected. She acknowledged that the contrary virtues of the Mother of God, including “silence, obedience, kindness, meekness, and tenderness,” feel “foreign” to most modern women, but that with plenty of time in prayer and silence, we can practice and acquire them.