Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker Shares Outdated Views on Gender Roles to College Grads

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | May 14, 2024 |

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | May 14, 2024 |

For the unfamiliar, Harrison Butker is the kicker for the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs. Taylor Swift’s team! He’s a good kicker, at that. But my guess is that he does not like Taylor Swift, because Butker believes that a woman’s place is in the kitchen homeschooling her children.

He said as much in a commencement address he gave to Benedictine College, a Catholic school in Kansas. He used the speech to emphasize that not all Catholics are good Catholics, specifically singling out Joe Biden, the demon force responsible for COVID lockdowns. (Why does Joe Biden keep getting blamed for COVID lockdowns when all the lockdowns happened before he’d even taken office?)

Butker also insisted to the men in the audience that they express their masculinity and that they should lean not into professions that they are best suited to but into professions that allow them to best serve God. He also went off on couples living together before marriage (in 2024!) and condemned those who would marry outside their faith.

However, the part of the speech that raised the most eyebrows was when Butker spoke of a woman’s role in society.

“I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolic lies told to you. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.

“I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. I’m on this stage today, able to be the man that I am, because I have a wife who leans into her vocation.

“I’m beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all. Homemaker.”

Butker tears up when he mentions how his wife converted, and when he says “homemaker,” the audience cheers, as though Butker were speaking from 1952.

For what it’s worth, Butker is also not a fan of LGBTQ folks, referencing “Not the deadly sins sort of pride that has an entire month dedicated to it but the true God-centered pride that is cooperating with the holy ghost to glorify him.”

Butker is entitled to his opinion, and the small private college in Kansas is entitled to allow him to speak it. But I hope that Taylor’s team doesn’t agree with Butker’s decision to use a public platform like a commencement speech to condemn groups of people, spread intolerance, and encourage outdated ideas about gender roles.

via Yahoo