Chiefs’ Butker has no regrets about controversial commencement speech

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has no regrets about expressing his beliefs in a latest graduation speech and he stated he has obtained assist in addition to “a surprising degree of hate” from others.

Butker spoke Friday night time on the Regina Caeli Academy Braveness Underneath Fireplace Gala in Nashville, Tennessee.

He made his first public feedback since his controversial latest graduation speech at Benedictine Faculty in Atchison, Kansas, the place he stated most ladies receiving levels have been in all probability extra enthusiastic about getting married and having children; argued some Catholic leaders have been “pushing harmful gender ideologies onto the youth of America;” referred to a “lethal sin type of delight that has a month devoted to it” in an indirect reference to Delight month; and took intention at President Joe Biden’s insurance policies, together with his condemnation of the Supreme Courtroom’s reversal of the 1973 Roe v. Wade resolution.

“It’s now, over the previous few days, my beliefs or what individuals suppose I imagine have been the main target of numerous discussions across the globe,” Butker said Friday. “On the outset, many individuals expressed a surprising degree of hate. However as the times went on, even those that disagreed with my viewpoints shared their assist for my freedom of faith.”

Butker stated he understands being criticized for his efficiency on the sphere. The 28-year-old stated he values his faith greater than soccer.

“It’s a choice I’ve consciously made and one I don’t remorse in any respect,” he stated.

The NFL has distanced itself from Butker’s feedback. The league stated the feedback and “views are usually not these of the NFL as a corporation.”

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes stated the three-time Tremendous Bowl winner is entitled to his beliefs, although he doesn’t at all times agree with him.

Talking about Butker on his “New Heights” podcast, Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce stated he cherishes Butker as a teammate.

“When it comes right down to his views and what he stated at (the) graduation speech, these are his,” Kelce stated. “I can’t say I agree with nearly all of it or simply about any of it outdoors of simply him loving his household and his children. And I don’t suppose that I ought to decide him by his views, particularly his spiritual views, of go about life, that’s simply not who I’m.”

Kelce does the podcast together with his brother Jason, who not too long ago retired after an impressive profession with the Philadelphia Eagles.

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