Commenter Craig alerted me to this story about an NFL player who defended traditional marriage and opposed abortion in a commencement speech. He’s getting a lot of trouble from the secular left. Let’s see the story, and then I’ll comment about what message this sends good men about value proposition of marriage and parenting.
Here’s the story from the Christian Post:
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker urged Catholic college graduates last weekend to reject the “Church of nice,” calling out President Joe Biden and other Catholics who support abortion and other practices that run counter to the teachings of the faith politically.
[…]Butker used his speech to highlight how “bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues.”
“Things like abortion, [in-vitro fertilization], surrogacy, euthanasia as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values and media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder,” Butker said. “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-Abortion,” he added. “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.”
There’s been a huge response to these comments from the secular left. They are enraged. They don’t want to have to conform their desires to any sort of specification for marriage that might limit their narcissistic hedonism. And they certainly don’t want to be burdened with the needs of children that they create through their reckless recreational sex.
Here are my thoughts:
First, the only kinds of men who are willing to marry and have kids today are men who have traditional views, including supporting natural marriage and protecting unborn children from reckless, selfish adults. So, if a woman wants to get married, then she has one option – to choose a traditional man. And in order to find a traditional man, a woman has to encourage men through her actions to be traditional, lest the supply of these men dry up.
Sadly, most young, unmarried women today are under a delusion. They think that they can behave non-traditionally, and still find a traditional man to marry them after their selfish, reckless youth. That might have been true in the past, when the culture was Christian, but it’s not true in an age of secularism and feminism. And the reason why is simple.
All men today – good and bad – understand that marriage is an enormous risk and threat to their freedom and prosperity. They have heard the stories about no-fault divorce laws, false accusations, outrageous alimony and child support payments, biased courts, denial of visitation and even IMPRISONMENT. The only reason they would marry is if they were able to find a traditional woman who not only opposed feminism, but had a long public record of fighting against it. Not just words, but many, many years of public opposition to atheism, feminism, and socialism. That is the only kind of woman who might have a chance at marriage today. Good men today don’t believe that women can magically change from non-traditional to traditional at age 30 (or later). We know that shotgun conversions are unlikely to be sincere, or to last. We know that a woman’s past actions are a more accurate guide to her beliefs than her words. And no amount of shaming and blaming of men by pious conservative leaders is going to change that fact.
But families, churches, and society in general are not producing women who respect traditional men. 75% of young women today vote for policies that are opposed by good men. No one has the courage to tell young women that hatred of good men today is NOT compatible with marriage tomorrow.
Instead, pro-marriage leaders think that good men should just be forced (by shaming) to forgive feminists for their poor decisions. Good men should just have to make the lives of women who hate them “work out”. Unfortunately for these pro-marriage people, good men have got the message. Good men look at stories like this, and realize that society hates men who have strong views on religion and morality. And that hatred extends from birth, through school, into the workplace, into laws, and into the courts.
It seems crazy to think that young women feel entitled to protection and provision in a marriage, even as they expect retain their opposition to male leadership. But that is universal today – non-traditional women who despise good men, expect to get all the benefits of a traditional man, with none of the responsibilities, expectations or obligations of traditional marriage. Only a stupid man would choose a non-traditional woman who hates him and hates his traditional views. And yet this is what the pro-marriage crowd expects men to do. They see men as 100% expendable.
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Author: Wintery Knight
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