Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker Spews Bigoted Rhetoric Under The Guise of His Catholic Faith

Screenshot of Harrison Butker from livestream of 2024 Commencement at Benedictine College (Benedictine College / YouTube) KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – Over the weekend, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivered the 2024 commencement speech at Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts college in Atchison, Kansas. Butker, a self-proclaimed proud and open Catholic, also gave a commencement speech at Georgia Tech in 2023. During this year’s commencement, the placekicker commended the graduates for their resilience during the Covid pandemic. However, he quickly veered off by addressing a range of contentious issues such as bad leadership, critical views on Catholics, DEI, gender roles, anti-Semitic beliefs, and anti-pride rhetoric, among others. Initially focusing on the challenges faced by academia from the pandemic, Butker suddenly shifted his attention to criticizing what he viewed as detrimental policies and leadership impacting society and life issues. Butker attributed things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, and “growing support for degenerate cultural values” to what he feels is a widespread dysfunction.& He singled out President Biden for his appearance and gesture at a pro-abortion rally last month. “Our own nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his catholic faith,” Butker said, “at the same...