City of Kansas City Deletes Tweet Disowning Chief’s Kicker Butker Due to Commencement Speech
“Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values and media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder.”
The city of Kansas City disowned Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker in a tweet due to his Catholic conservative speech at a Catholic college.
Butker has found himself under fire due to the speech. How dare he!
Butker is an outspoken Catholic. He makes no apologies for his Catholic faith and conservative views.
Those views came out when Butker gave the commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchinson, Kansas, a Catholic college.
I’ve included the full speech at the bottom of the post. You can also read the whole thing at Forbes.
I picked it apart a little bit. Thank goodness Catholics have someone like Butker who isn’t afraid to use his platform to advocate for the faith.
The speech included Butker lamenting the erosion of Catholic values while criticizing President Joe Biden for being a fake Catholic:
While COVID might have played a large role throughout your formative years it is not unique. Bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues. Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values and media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder. Our own nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally. He has been so vocal in his support for the murder of innocent babies that I’m sure to many people it appears that you can be both Catholic and pro-choice. He is not alone. From the man behind the COVID lockdowns to the people pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America, they all have a glaring thing in common: They are Catholic. This is an important reminder that being Catholic alone doesn’t cut it.
I love this part of his speech because I wish Catholics wouldn’t be so, as he put it, “the Church of nice.” We have to defend ourselves and not apologize:
These are the sorts of things we are told in polite society to not bring up. You know, the difficult and unpleasant things. But if we are going to be men and women for this time in history we need to stop pretending that the “Church of nice” is a winning proposition. We must always speak and act in charity but never mistake charity for cowardice. It is safe to say that over the past few years I’ve gained quite the reputation for speaking my mind. I never envisioned myself nor wanted to have this sort of a platform but God has given it to me so I have no other choice but to embrace it and preach more hard truths about accepting your lane and staying in it.
As members of the church founded by Jesus Christ, it is our duty and ultimately privilege to be authentically and unapologetically Catholic. Don’t be mistaken: even within the church, people in polite Catholic circles will try to persuade you to remain silent. There even was an award-winning film called “Silence” made by a fellow Catholic wherein one of the main characters, a Jesuit priest, abandoned the church, and as an apostate, when he died is seen grasping a crucifix quiet and unknown to anyone but God. As a friend of Benedictine College, his Excellency Bishop Robert Barron said in his review of the film it was exactly what the cultural elite want to see in Christianity: Private, hidden away and harmless.
The left also went crazy because Butker praised his wife for embracing her vocation as mother and wife. The left completely misconstrued this part of his speech, leaving out an important part:
For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives. I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you, how many of you are sitting here now about to cross the stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you’re going to get in your career.
Butker then praised his wife, who chose to be a mom and wife:
I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.
I’m on this stage today and able to be the man 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 of 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. She’s a primary educator to our children. She’s the one who ensures I never let football or my business become a distraction from that of a husband and father. She is the person that knows me best at my core. And it is through our marriage that Lord willing, we will both attain salvation. I say all of this to you because I’ve seen it firsthand how much happier someone can be when they disregard the outside noise and move closer and closer to God’s will in their life. Isabelle’s dream of having a career might not have come true. But if you ask her today, if she has any regrets on her decision, she would laugh out loud without hesitation and say, “heck no.”
Butker did not tell the women to abandon their degrees or future careers out of the house.
Not once did Butker tell the women to stay in the kitchen.
All Butker did was make sure the women knew that being a wife and mom was okay. It is okay to get a degree even if you become a wife and mom.
Society tries to belittle women who choose to be moms and wives as careers. This is wrong and belittling even though we choose this life. Little do they know that the women who choose this path are usually the head of the household! It’s also in our biology to take this path. I know from experience.
Then Butker addressed the men, encouraging them to be present and not apologize for their masculinity.
Butker had harsh words for the Church, especially when it came to COVID and the lockdowns:
They were motivated by fear: fear of being sued, fear of being removed, fear of being disliked. They showed by their actions, intentional or unintentional, that the sacraments don’t actually matter. Because of this countless people died alone, without access to the sacraments, and it’s a tragedy we must never forget.
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We cannot buy into the lie that the things we experienced during COVID were appropriate. Over the centuries there have been great wars, great famines, and yes, even great diseases, all that came with a level of lethality and danger. But in each of those examples, church leaders leaned into their vocations, and ensured that their people received the sacraments. Great saints like St. Damien of Molokai, who knew the dangers of his ministry, stayed for 11 years as a spiritual leader to the leper colonies of Hawaii.
I could not imagine receiving the Anointing of the Sick (often called the last rites, but anyone who is sick or getting surgery can get it) as I’m dying.
How many kids had their First Communion and Confirmation pushed back?
Not receiving Communion for so long hurt too much, especially on Easter. Of all days, we couldn’t receive Communion on the holiest day of the year. That sucked.
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How are you going to lump IVF or surrogacy in with abortion and euthanasia?
These are the only ways some people can have biological children.
It’s a common belief in Catholicism, I believe, and many conservative protestants agree that you shouldn’t do IVF and surrogacy. I think the complaint is about the number of fertilized eggs abandoned via the procedures.
If you ask them, “What about having children?” They’ll point to adoption.
Exactly.
Fertilize only those you implant.
or
Implant all you fertilize.
Idiots that refuse to consider objective evidence and data are a big part of holding conservatism back.
The backwards few that say such garbage without an ounce of self-awareness or reflection set the rest of us back light years because they are rightfully mocked. The problem is that fellow conservatives with a working brain are lumped in with this dogmatic drivel and dismissed.
Harrison Butker is a brave man and intelligent enough to make his points without resorting to name-calling like calling someone an idiot. That’s what people do that either don’t have an argument, or like in your case, doesn’t respect free speech and the freedom to have one’s own opinion on how to follow the morality of the Bible.
I never buy jerseys, but am thinking about buying a Butker-7 jersey.
I hope conservativism moves forward and gains traction, but not at the expense of limiting free speech and free thought, and especially not at the expense of moving away from God’s values.
I respect his right to speak and make his self look like a backwards idiot. Don’t get triggered because I exercised my speech to point out absurdity.
Nobody is refusing “to consider objective evidence and data”. But it’s not a matter of objective evidence and data, it’s a matter of definition, which is the realm of philosophy and theology, not science. No amount of objective evidence or data can tell you whether an embryo, or a foetus, or even a toddler, or even an adult, is a person. It can only tell you whether it is a functioning human zygote, an example of the human species, but it can’t tell you the moral significance of that status. For that we need religion, or moral philosophy for those who attempt to substitute that.
The Roman Church, as I understand it, teaches that an embryo from “conception” (whenever that is) is a person. If that is true, then it follows that it must be wrong to deliberately kill it. And if some people can’t have children of their own without killing some of them, then they shouldn’t have children.
I mean, you wouldn’t dispute that if we were talking about two-year-olds, would you? If for some reason the only way you could have children at all was to have sextuplets and then, when they turned two, choose two to keep and slaughter the others, then you would just have to not have children. Well, if an embryo frozen at 5 days is a person, then what’s the difference between that scenario and this one?
My own tradition disagrees with the Catholic one; it teaches me that a foetus is a person but an embryo is not, and that the line is drawn at 40 days after conception, which interestingly seems to coincide with the earliest detectable brain activity. So I have no problem with IVF, but I completely understand why Catholics do.
As for surrogacy, it opens a whole nasty tangle of moral issues, starting with adultery, and whose child is it really? Is it really your biological child just because it has your DNA? Who says so? Feelings are no guide to truth, and science can’t even ask the questions, let alone answer them.
Because they combine multiple sets egg and sperm outside the body, creating multiple embryos. Then they implant until one takes. At the end of the process, the rest are disposed of. Given that Catholics believe life begins at conception, each of those discarded embryos is considered a murdered child. Just like abortion.
I’m not even going to go into the idiocy that life begins at conception. If anyone still believes that, you are beyond hope at this point.
Why so antagonistic towards someone elses beliefs? Once a cell splits it’s alive. Your argument is not if it is alive but what to do with it and for how long.
I think you gravely misunderstand the definition of “life” and how you’re using it.
I think you have no clue what you are talking about.
Life clearly does begin at conception. How can anyone question that? The question isn’t about life, it’s about personhood. And there is no possibly way to objectively answer such a question; therefore there can’t be any way to objectively criticize anyone else’s answer.
So if someone continues to try to have a full term pregnancy with a healthy infant knowing they will suffer many miscarriages with a 1 in a million chance of conceiving are they then guilty of also murdering children?
They would know in advance that many embryos will die in utero during this process, so there’s no significant difference.
No, because they are not the ones killing those children. They’re no different from people having a baby in the pre-modern era, knowing that there was a high chance that it would die of some childhood disease, or of famine, war, crime, and all the other ways that people died so often. The Creator is responsible for those deaths, and ultimately He is responsible for all deaths. A thousand years is like a day in His eyes, so there’s no difference to Him between harvesting someone at 70 years or 70 minutes. Deliberately causing someone’s death, though, that’s murder.
And surrogacy is very often used anymore to “give” homosexuals a child.
So WHAT?
It’s often used to give a lot of people that can’t carry a child their own.
So? The point is that surrogacy is most often used today for giving homosexuals children. So it has at least one liability for a conservative. I didn’t say it should be banned because of it. I simply answered your question as to why it might be an issue.
Not all conservatives hate gays. We have gays on this board in fact. Maybe you should run to your safe space over it.
There was a time when some couples sought direct deposit in the interest of having children, usually because the man had mumps.
Mumps takes like a week to get over if you’re a kid. If you’re an adult, is it that much worse that they couldn’t just wait then do the deed?
Mumps sometimes made men infertile. Not so much anymore.
Well, one big distinction is that IVF and surrogacy are in line with having babies and respect for life.
Abortion and euthanasia, not so much.
EXACTLY…..to anyone with half a thinking brain this is obvious.
I am an atheist, albeit one with a deep respect for those that believe.
If life does not begin at conception, then when does it begin?
That’s a discussion that could be had if both sides would be objective and sincere, but I would argue that brain activity is required at the very least to have even the advent of a consciousness.
And you’re not there talking about “life.” You’re talking about “personhood.”
Pro-abortionists smeared that distinction because they didn’t want to be accused of deciding when someone was “worth” being considered a person.
By your logic, an organ donor committed suicide and an organ recipient committed murder.
Not all cells, tissues, organs, and systems are equal.
One side has a clear, biologically defined line. Your side has a subjective line. You should definitely keep flexing your morality, fsu. Weren’t you duped by social distancing?
What morality am I flexing?? Outrage at stupidity? Morality is a complete non-sequitur here.
Here’s a clear, biologically defined line: Fetal EEG brainwave activity is detectable after 8 weeks assuming the neural tube closes properly during development.
Conception is guessed at and back dated based on other hallmarks during the pregnancy. The date of conception in a typical pregnancy isn’t usually known until about 30+ days later during that visit to the doctor where some math is done.
It isn’t even until another 8 days post-conception before a healthy embryo implants on the uterine endometrium (to implant early would cause a very dangerous ectopic pregnancy) because the site of fertilization is almost always in the Fallopian tube closer to the ovary than the uterus. A conceptus that fails to implant is inviable. A conceptus that implants ectopically is in mortal danger and puts the mother in mortal danger. These are KNOWN BASIC FACTS OF REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGY, but please tell me about the clearly defined biological lines.
None of that happens without conception regardless of the exact time it’s known. I see you struggle with simple cause and effect. Tell me more how smart you are.
Conception doesn’t happen without a sperm and an egg cell either. Are each considered alive enough to be “murdered” when they are destroyed?
Tell me more about how thick-headed you are. I pointed out that these facts are basic. Any idiot can find them if they know where to look. Willful ignorance of reality is lower than stupidity.
and yet…. not a word of complaint against the serial domestic abusers all through the NFL…
That would be ra….
Never mind.
It’s so hard to know what it’s safe to be outraged about these days.
You need new material. Maybe copy and paste a few more items from your freshman syllabi so we’ll all be in awe of what a contrarian “intellectual” you are.
KC is just another democrat Sodom and Gomorrah.
To be fair, living in Lee’s Summit is smarter than living in KCMO. KCMO’s schools are terrible, most the services, streets, and homes are nicer. I imagine most Chiefs players don’t live in KCMO.
Yes but KC wants his haters to know where he lives. Someone else on Twixter literally doxxed his mother’s workplace. This is seriously threatening stuff.
Remember, people: Progressivism is a religion. Despite what they tell you about it being “secular” it’s really about opposing Christianity (and Judaism). They are not “decrying religious encroachment” they are demanding everyone practice their religion.
Unfortunately, Progressivism is being folded into canon law under the present False Pope.
He’s a good man of faith
So few around
Sorry, but, about time
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2024/05/16/gov-abbott-pardons-us-army-sergeant-perry-who-was-convicted-of-murdering-blm-protester-n2174290
Sorry, but, about time
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the governor kept his word–good on him–am grateful to be living under the lone star
The KC tweet was not an error…. it was a miscalculation and they meant it until it began to blow up in their faces. The Roman Catholics are taking it on the chin these days with reminders that the Dem Party is digging up old bigoted laws as in the New York ammo case where the judge justified the law by using the 1756 Virginia ban on Catholics owning firearms. It’s as if the Dems have pulled on their invisible KKK cloaks once again.
Oh wow this is a radically different report of Butker’s speech. As reported elsewhere he supposedly took the strict Islamic line – women stay home, don’t be out of the house basically. This suggests it wasn’t remotely that, yet inspired huge controversy. Why?
Contrast that with all the commencement or graduation speeches that are advocating the genocide of Israel and the Jews. Nary a mention by the MSM, or hint they’re controversial.
Genocide of Jews = acceptable, Roman Catholic suggesting some women’s most powerful and fulfilling role is as homemakers? Ooh that’s double plus ungood!!! Gather the lynch mob!
“We apologies” Is it just me?
The vile, evil and stupid Dhimmi-crats will allow citizens to express a multitude of opinions, as long as they all variations on a theme, evincing requisite fealty toward the Party line — i,e., pro-criminal; pro-illegal alien; anti-Israel; pro-Muslim supremacist/Islamofascist/terrorist; pro-infanticide; pro-male misogynist trannies; pro-“green” energy and other, assorted environmental fanaticism; pro-oppressive taxation; pro-fiscal profligacy; pro-racial demagoguery and victimho0d-wallowing; pro-racial/contrived grievance group spoils system; etc.
nfl again taking the knee
which should go right up their arseees
waiting for a few who practice islam in the nfl to stand with him!!!
Yeah, give us a full report when you find out. We can’t wait to read one of your incoherent, all-lowercase poem-style posts. They’re so interesting and informative.
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