Some sports stars make headlines for drug abuse or acts of violence, but one football player is taking heat for publicly promoting Christian values. On Saturday, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivered the commencement at the Catholic Benedictine College, encouraging young graduates to stand firm in their faith and live out authentic Christian virtues.
Now, the National Football League (NFL) is playing defense and condemning Butker’s speech as offensive. The NFL’s senior vice president and top diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officer Jonathan Beane told media, “Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity. His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.” Others on the Left have been quick to blast Butker, especially for referring to homosexual acts and gender ideology as “deadly sins” and for encouraging women to be mothers and men to be fathers.
A devout Catholic and father of two, Butker acknowledged in his commencement speech that much of what he would say may be unpopular. “These are the sorts of things we are told in polite society to not bring up. You know, the difficult and unpleasant things,” the Chiefs kicker said. “But if we are going to be men and women for this time in history we need to stop pretending that the ‘Church of nice’ is a winning proposition. We must always speak and act in charity but never mistake charity for cowardice.” He explained that he “never envisioned” having the degree of public attention that he does, but added that “God has given it to me so I have no other choice but to embrace it and preach more hard truths…”
Just speaking about values makes Democrats freak out like a vampire in sunlight do they not see how far they’ve fallen?
He basically told a huge group of women that just spent 4 years to earn a degree to get back in the kitchen and not pursue a career. Of course they’re mad.