Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star Harrison Butker has confronted criticism for attacking abortion rights and telling girls graduates that one in every of their most necessary roles in life is “homemaker”.
The three-time Tremendous Bowl winner’s feedback had been amongst plenty of views he gave throughout a 20-minute graduation speech at Benedictine School, Kansas.
The Chiefs haven’t commented and the NFL mentioned it was a “private” matter.
Nevertheless, greater than 100,000 individuals signed a petition for his dismissal.
In his speech on Might 11, the three-times Tremendous Bowl winner addressed girls graduates within the crowd, telling them they’d been instructed “probably the most diabolical lies”.
“A few of chances are you’ll go on to steer profitable careers on the earth. However I’d enterprise to guess that almost all of you’re most enthusiastic about your marriage and the youngsters you’ll carry into this world,” he mentioned.
Butker added that his spouse’s life “actually began” when “she started dwelling her vocation as a spouse and as a mom”.
The 28-year-old then added that his spouse embraced “some of the necessary titles of all: homemaker”.
His speech on the Catholic personal school additionally attacked IVF, surrogacy, Satisfaction marches, “degenerate cultural values”, “harmful gender ideologies” and abortion rights.
“Our nation is led by a person who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic religion, however … has been so vocal in his assist for the homicide of harmless infants,” he mentioned.
