It’s fine to disagree with Kansas City Chiefs’ Harrison Butker over his opinions on faith and family. But that doesn’t mean he needs to be canceled.
What a great country, this America. You can disagree with the — checks notes — kicker from the Kansas City Chiefs, and your life still moves on!
With your career prospects intact. Your college diploma not ripped up.
Yet disputation isn’t enough for some Americans, who want payback simply because they find someone else’s personal values offensive.
According to the news cycle and social media hysteria, the Chiefs’ three-time Super Bowl-winning kicker, Harrison Butker, has outed himself as a misogynistic guardian of Gilead from “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
He might even be the manufacturer of the robes. And he needs to be punished.
All this spilled forth during a commencement speech he delivered at Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts school in Atchison, Kansas, over the weekend.
Butker, you see, is a devout Catholic: a Traditional Latin Mass-going Big C. In his speech, the married father-of-three delivered pro-family, pro-life Catholic fare.
He praised his wife, Isabelle, saying her “most important role” is “homemaker.” (Ahem, “stay at home mom” is the proper parlance these days, Harrison.)
He also told the graduating women that they may find their deepest fulfillment not in the board room — but at home, as a wife and mother.
The backlash was intense. There were furious columns and very angry tweets. It was discussed and panned by ladies on morning television. The NFL distanced itself from the speech, issuing a statement that “his views are not those of the NFL as an organization.
