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The left’s pointy little heads began exploding following Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Catholic Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, about two weeks ago.
In his talk, the NFL footballer embraced his Catholic faith as he criticized President Joe Biden for supporting abortion, as well as “the people pushing gender ideologies onto the youth of America.” The left attacked the Georgia Tech alumni for praising stay-at-home moms and their decision to run a household and raise children.
In a nutshell, Butker applauded mom, the flag and apple pie. That’s the left’s issue. It despises that all-American trio. They’re as repelled by it as vampires are by a crucifix.
Based on the hysterical reaction from the far-left whackos following his talk, folks would have thought the college had invited Texas singer, author, and satirist, Kinky Freidman, to perform his signature song: “Get Your Biscuits In the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed” at the commencement.
For those unfamiliar with Mr. Freidman’s song lyrics following are a couple of refrains. (WARNING: Attention leftists, Democrats, campus protestors, those with Trump Derangement Syndrome, drag queens who read books to small children, Ivy League students and faculty, and men wearing dresses who drink Bud Light, reader discretion is advised as you may find the following content disturbing).
Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed
That’s what I to my baby said,
Women’s liberation is a-going to your head,
Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed
You uppity women I don’t understand
Why you gotta go and try to act like a man,
But before you make your weekly visit to the shrink
You’d better occupy the kitchen, liberate the sink.
Any attempt to write a parody about the silly people criticizing the Christian kicker’s talk would be more difficult to compose than what they are already doing to themselves.
Following his commencement talk and the leftist meltdown, the outspoken kicker made his first public remarks on Friday, May 24. He stated that the “shocking level of hate” will not deter him from being “unapologetic” about his faith in the future.
“If it wasn’t clear that the timeless Catholic values are hated by many, it is now,” Butker said about a week later at an event called Courage Under Fire in Nashville, in support of a Catholic charity. “Over the past few days, my beliefs, or what people think I believe, have been the focus of countless discussions around the globe.
“In my seven years in the NFL, I’ve become familiar with positive and negative comments. But the majority of them revolve around my performance on the field,” he added. “But, as to be expected, the more I’ve talked about what I value most, my Catholic faith, the more polarizing I’ve become. It’s a decision I’ve consciously made, and one I do not regret at all.”
The three-time Super Bowl champion kicker for the Chiefs even came under fire from the NFL front office. Jonathan Beane, the NFL’s senior vice president, chief diversity, and inclusion officer (What else?) weighed in saying as the league scrambled to distance itself from what Butker had said. “Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity,” Beane told People magazine in a written statement that had to be cleared by his superiors. “His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.” It was a stupid statement, spoken by a stupid man directed toward stupid people.
My wise Tampa friend, journalist Larry Thornberry, who writes for the American Spectator, shared his feelings with me on the brouhaha saying: “I have another long-time friend who is quite intelligent, and sound in most ways, but has been infected with feminist orthodoxy.”
Larry bluntly laid that facts out for her after she besieged him with a load of feminist boilerplate about the kicker’s comments. “Butker’s full remarks are available on line and if you consult them you’ll see that he didn’t suggest that women can only keep house,” he explained to her.
“The cultural left in their response to him, as usual, distorted what he said,” Larry continued. “He would like to see women who choose to be homemakers and mothers rather than partners in law firms or company CEOs not be denigrated, as is too often the case now. Alas, anytime anyone, particularly a man, suggests this, the old ‘barefoot and pregnant’ line gets trotted out. The women’s groups only seem to be hot for choice when it means abortion.”
Mr. Thornberry didn’t hold back on his criticism of the dim bulbs in the NFL front office adding: “The NFL’s corporate leadership goes to DEFCON1 every time a player violates progressive orthodoxy. If Butker had made comments about how abortion should be allowed up until the moment of birth, or about how Israel engages in genocide, or how black Americans are brutalized by white supremacy, the silence from the NFL offices would have been deafening.”
Larry opted quite right that the opinions of athletes and other celebrities on politics or religion or cultural controversies should be of no consequence to the general public. “Nor should the comments of the various sports league front offices,” he emphasized. “Alas, they are to the NFL’s Roger Goodell, the MLB’s Rob Manfred, and the NBA’s Adam Silver, who consistently annoy a large percentage of their fan base by their virtue signaling. Their business is ball games. They should stick to them.”
However, as clamorous as the left-wing condemnation of Butker has been, support for the outspokenly Christian kicker has been equally loud if not louder and far more civil and reasoned..
Though his comments were vehemently criticized by a few lefty KC locals – a Change.org petition even called for the Chiefs to dismiss him for his remarks that it deemed “sexist, homophobic, anti-trans, anti-abortion, and racist” — he’s been enthusiastically embraced by teammates and the general public. The veteran NFL player has won public support from his head coach Andy Reid, as well as star teammates Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Chris Jones.
Butker’s jersey sales also skyrocketed following his commencement address as people rushed to the NFL Shop, making Butker’s jersey one of the most popular in the entire league. But here’s the kicker for the kicker — though the media showcased anger from women, his jersey actually sold out in women’s sizes. As the late Roger Miller sang in 1965….
*Kansas City star, that’s what I are
Yodel-deedle ay-hee, you oughta see my car
I drive a big old Cadillac with wire wheels, got rhinestones on the spokes
I got credit down at the grocery store
And my barber tells me jokes
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Author: Dave Scott
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