If American Institutions Were Morally Neutral, Harrison Butker Wouldn’t Have Struck A Nerve

(The Federalist) Harrison Butker, a devout Catholic and professional kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, has stirred up a major controversy with remarks made during a commencement address at Benedictine College, a small Catholic institution located in Atchison, Kansas.

In his speech, steeped in traditional Catholic beliefs, Butker took aim at a variety of untouchable tenets of liberal orthodoxy — including “Pride Month,” which he called a “deadly sin,” while warning about the threat from “dangerous gender ideologies.”

After praising his wife, Isabelle, stating that she “would be the first to say that her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother,” he had the gall to suggest that the women in the graduating class could also aspire to assume “one of the most important titles of all, homemaker,” instead of climbing the corporate ladder.

Not content to stop there, he turned the heresy dial up to 11 when he told men to “be unapologetic in your masculinity” and fight “against the cultural emasculation of men.”  (Read More)

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