A Kansas City Chiefs star again made headlines this week — just not for anything football related — as three-time Super Bowl champion Harrison Butker created significant controversy drawing responses from the NFL and GLAAD after a recent commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas went viral.
The 20-minute speech, addressed to graduating students, took a firm stance against “poor leadership” in the United States, imploring practicing Catholics to oppose abortion and be more “countercultural” in a faith community that’s he said has become more concerned with appeasing the masses than speaking hard truth. Butker dedicated a portion of his speech to women, advocating for motherhood and arguing that they have been fed “diabolical lies” about trading the opportunity to become wives and mothers for career advancement. In doing so, he suggested “homemaker” is one of “the most important titles” a woman could have.
Butker also took aim at culture’s contemporary view of men: “Part of what plagues our society,” he said, “is this lie that has been told to you that men are not necessary in the home or in our communities. As men, we set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction…
