Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker rails against Pride month, working women in commencement speech
Source: AP
Updated 9:58 PM CDT, May 14, 2024
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker railed against Pride month, working women, President Bidens leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and abortion during a commencement address at Benedictine College last weekend.
The three-time Super Bowl champion delivered the roughly 20-minute address Saturday at the Catholic private liberal arts school in Atchison, Kansas, which is located about 60 miles north of Kansas City.
Butker, who has made his conservative Catholic beliefs well known, began his address by attacking what he called dangerous gender ideologies in an apparent reference to Pride month, which has been celebrated in June since the Stonewall riots in 1969. He also criticized an article by The Associated Press highlighting a shift toward conservativism in some parts of the Catholic Church.
The 28-year-old Butker then took aim at Bidens policies, including his response to COVID-19, which has killed nearly 1.2 million people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..............
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While COVID might have played a large role throughout your formative years, it is not unique, he said. The bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues. Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for the degenerate cultural values and media all stem from pervasiveness of disorder.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-chiefs-harrison-butker-e00f6ee45955c99ef1e809ec447239e0
It is slow, continuous indoctrination by people of influence--with HATE that will harm the USA.
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FILE - Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker speaks to the media during NFL football Super Bowl 58 opening night Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, in Las Vegas. Butker railed against Pride month along with President Bidens leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and his stance on abortion during a commencement address at Benedictine College last weekend. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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SalamanderSleeps
(635 posts)Rhiannon12866
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jimfields33
(17,887 posts)Hes probably thrilled. I will ignore him after this post.
Bev54
(11,282 posts)Dulcinea
(7,157 posts)said no one ever.
chillfactor
(7,660 posts)He needs a woman to kick him where it hurts!
msongs
(69,238 posts)RockRaven
(15,830 posts)being a complete fucking scumbag...
Nobody has ever heard of Frank "I will hit you like I hit her" Clark or Tyreek "felony domestic assault and battery by strangulation" Hill or Rashee "eight felonies and counting" Rice or Britt "nepobaby failson child-maiming DWI-ing assistant coach" Reid... Right?
Wow, this story just came out of nowhere.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,047 posts)I can see that, as Catholics, they may think his views on gender and Pride are acceptable, but what kind of speech is this to give to the women who were graduating? "All your years of hard work don't mean shit, you should be pregnant and back in the house".
He's the one with "degenerate cultural values".
Rebl2
(14,285 posts)agree with your post, especially your last sentence. Would like to know what he thinks about all the priests and ministers that have taken advantage or preyed upon children and teens to see if he feels those are degenerate values.
SoFlaBro
(2,655 posts)Lemon Lyman
(1,433 posts)What a douchebag.
It's nice having building a list of dumb fux to root against though:
rodgers
bosa bros
butker
Skittles
(156,722 posts)what a pathetic piece of SHIT
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(9,499 posts)Otterdaemmerung
(92 posts)Strange that any conservatives are taking him seriously. By their own standards, shouldn't he just shut up and kick?
J_William_Ryan
(1,945 posts)of the hateful, bigoted right.
bmichaelh
(524 posts)So, we are to trust someone (Trump) when it comes to healthcare:
He does not understand the complexities of healthcare and so would be incompetent
Or
He understands the complexities and is a sociopath and does not care how many lives he destroys.
Docreed2003
(17,408 posts)Please do share from your infinite wisdom, Mr Butker, any other global pandemic that affected so many people in the way Covid did in our lifetime...
What an asshole and an idiot to boot
samnsara
(18,029 posts)..'Haters gotta Hate'.....
twodogsbarking
(11,502 posts)Deminpenn
(15,793 posts)story on how liberal and moderate Catholics are leaving the church because there are now so many rw priests. It's leaving the churches to the most conservative parishoners.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/faith-religion/2024/05/05/A-step-back-in-time-America-s-Catholic-Church-sees-an-immense-shift-toward-the-old-ways/stories/202405050031
He seems like a bigot who abuses religion to suit his prejudices. Plenty of religious people in this country are not assholes like he is.
whathehell
(29,502 posts)He hardly speaks for the "religious"
of the world.
twodogsbarking
(11,502 posts)whathehell
(29,502 posts)It's implied when, as in your case, it's used without a modifier, i.e. "some", "many", etc.
jimmiles
(8 posts)This was not a national news event until others who profit from clicks made it so. Stop clicking on hate!
CousinIT
(9,694 posts)bluestarone
(17,824 posts)"Talibangelical"
TeamProg
(6,630 posts)complete asshole who forgot basic history. Biden didnt take office til Jan 2021. I think Fox Noise corrupted his brain. Same people think Bushs housing crash was caused by Obama.
TxGuitar
(4,262 posts)where these guys are finding women willing to procreate with them????
Mysterian
(4,992 posts)for a commencement speaker? Or any dumbass jock.
Mad_Dem_X
(9,705 posts)What a complete a*****e.
highplainsdem
(51,277 posts)Chi67
(1,100 posts)This idiot is free to practice whatever religion he wants. He does not get to dictate how others live their lives. And DEI is tyranny? The NFL is pretty diverse. This fuckwad should quit his job if diversity is so terrible.
Seeking Serenity
(2,908 posts)Chi67
(1,100 posts)You should watch his speech. It's pretty clear what he thinks people should do. He clearly stated he thinks women have been "lied to" and that they should stay home and raise kids instead of having careers. That's not up for debate.
He also thinks that people like me (LGBT) do not deserve to celebrate Pride month, that we are the "deadliest sin".
What message did that send? That the kids in the audience should shun and possibly harm people like me? That is unacceptable. We face enough BS already.
wolfie001
(3,000 posts)Such a privileged jackass. His mother is a very successful professional. Couldn't be any more tone-deaf. This is the sick philosophy of Jordan "Benzos" Peterson.
The Roux Comes First
(1,377 posts)Your 15 minutes is over, bub, now crawl back into your bunker.
Bengus81
(7,255 posts)That makes it a HELL of a lot easier for his Stepford wife to stay and home and clean IF that's what she wants. Maybe someone should inform that POS that it takes many Chiefs fans with expensive season tickets TWO people with income and then some.
Wow!! WTF....as a huge fan of the Chiefs I never knew this guy was a total MAGA FUCK HEAD!! Yeah...Biden should have done better with Covid a YEAR before he was President.
Shit!!................
LetMyPeopleVote
(151,425 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,430 posts)He's just a fucking football player.
And while I'm at it, why in the FUCK would ANY institution of higher learning want someone of his ilk to give the commencement address?
Skittles
(156,722 posts)rich assholes playing a game - why indeed should anyone care what they think
FakeNoose
(34,587 posts)What a sad joke this guy is ... and what a desperate out-of-step school that invited him to speak in front of graduates and their parents/family. Did anyone have any idea he'd say this shit?
tonekat
(1,896 posts)Like I'd look to a dumb jock for political advice.
pstokely
(10,597 posts)but how does kicking field goals change minds on abortion or anything?
EndlessWire
(7,090 posts)Another example of talent not matching up with brain power. I just never wanted to know this about him. Well, now we're going to get to see how the team reacts and seeks to distance themselves from him. My guess is he's not going to be on the team for long.
This last Super Bowl, he played exceptionally well and really was responsible for at least one of the wins on the way to the big game. He really is a good kicker. Someone else will surely have him. But, he's now tainting the entire team with these idiotic ideas. I wonder why people shoot themselves in the foot (see what I did there?) by thinking that anyone else wants to hear their dreams to subjugate women back to the 1800s or further. I am so disappointed. Eyes on the next man up.
Please, if Mahomes is this way, I just don't want to find out until after the November election.
Rebl2
(14,285 posts)did all he could to slow Covid and get treatments for it. He seems to have forgotten it was tfg that said all the crazy stuff about how to treat Covid and said it would go away if we would just stop talking about it-yea that a great treatment plan.
Seeking Serenity
(2,908 posts)Generally not out of line with Catholic doctrine at an all-women Catholic university? Has there been a post-commencement outrage amongst the women present? I listened to most of the address, and I didn't hear any boos or heckling.
Is he not allowed his beliefs and to express them, particularly when he was invited to? Is the university not permitted to invite who it wishes to give its commencement address? I don't agree with everything he said, but I really don't get the pearl-clutching and screaming by everyone else who aren't those women.
(And I'll admit that I got a little choked up when he choked up about giving the girl he met in middle school, later to be his wife, all the credit for him being where he is. That was sweet.)
AllaN01Bear
(22,149 posts)Aussie105
(5,940 posts)So Harrison Butker is a kicker for the Chiefs?
Good boy!
But why does he think that makes him an expert on other topics, and why people should want to hear what his opinions are?
LiberalFighter
(53,036 posts)He was blaming Biden for Covid.
He made the following false statement...
Congress just passed a bill where stating something as basic as the biblical teaching of who killed Jesus could land you in jail.
If that were true it would be by a Congress that has a Republican House.
He says his Catholic faith has always been countercultural. What?
He refers to diversity, equity, and inclusion a tyranny. Seems he is a racist.
He criticizes the Catholic Church a lot.
Silent Type
(5,305 posts)Its not something Id want to hear at graduation, but he loves his family and wants everyone to experience what he thinks everyone needs. It was stupid, corny, at best. But I can sort of understand that, as long as encouraging pursuing a career.
The other stuff is reason enough to bash the MFer. I consider Butker about like Kyle Rittenhouse, a punchable pissant.