Football, Flags and Phonies
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On Saturday, May 11, devoutly Catholic Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivered a Catholic-themed commencement address at —of all places— a Catholic college. He told his Catholic audience a bunch of Catholic stuff, based on Catholic teaching and his deeply Catholic faith.
It was awful.
To hear the second, third, and umpteenth-hand accounts —in addition to the mushroom cloud of social media hysteria that’s followed—you might be inclined to believe that the speech had been presented by Joseph Stalin. That’s because most of what has been attributed to Butker was never uttered by the man.
The maniacal, ill-informed and bigoted response was swift and widespread.
Maria Shriver shrieked “it’s demeaning to women to imply that their choices outside of wife and motherhood pale in comparison to that of a homemaker.”
Change.org posted an online petition calling on Butker to be fired (fired!), saying that his comments “reinforce harmful stereotypes that threaten social progress.”
MSNBC’s Jason Page called it hypocritical that Butker “won’t get the Kaepernick treatment.”
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