NFL’s Harrison Butker slammed for urging women grads to be ‘homemakers’

Harrison Butker's commencement address touched on everything from Pride month to women's roles in the home, abortion and in vitro fertilization.

Harrison Butker, a kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, is being blasted online for a commencement speech he gave at Benedictine College in Kansas last weekend, during which he railed against abortion rights and told women they should embrace being homemakers.

Butker, who has made his conservative Catholic beliefs known in the past, began his address by attacking what he called “dangerous gender ideologies” in an apparent reference to Pride month.

During the speech at the private Catholic liberal arts college, Butker spoke about his “traditional Catholic values.” The 28-year-old, three-time Super Bowl champion also railed against President Joe Biden‘s leadership during the pandemic and called out what he said was Biden’s hypocrisy for being Catholic while supporting access to abortion rights, calling him “delusional.”

“While COVID might have played a large role throughout your formative years, it is not unique,” he said. “The bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues. Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for the degenerate cultural values and media all stem from 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 said of the president.

But the most controversial part of the 20-minute speech came later, when Butker addressed the women in the audience, arguing that their “most important title” should be that of “homemaker.”

“I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolic lies told to you,” Butker said. “Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life truly started when she started 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.