Backfire on Leftist Narrative: Harrison Butker Women's Jerseys Sell Out after NFL Kicker's Pro-Family Commencement Speech

Calvin Freiburger : May 21, 2024
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Sales indicate that female fans, one of the groups most 'attacked,' according to the Kansas City Chiefs player's detractors, did not hear in his remarks what leftist wanted them to.

[LifeSiteNews.com] While left-wing activists attempt to depict Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker as an "extremist" for a recent speech forcefully applying Catholic values to modern controversies, sales of his jersey indicate his message resonates with the actual mainstream of the United States. (Screengrab image: via CBS Sports)

On May 11, the 28-year-old Super Bowl champion set off a national conversation in his speech to this year's graduates of Catholic Benedictine College in which he touched on numerous current political and cultural divisions, including self-proclaimed "Catholic" politicians supporting abortion, COVID lockdowns, and LGBT ideology as well as contemporary messages directing young girls away from family in the name of career.

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The speech led to a wave of support from conservative listeners and condemnation from left-wing voices. The National Football League (NFL) distanced its "commitment to inclusion" from Butker's "personal" opinions, a group of left-wing nuns associated with the school, the Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, condemned his "narrow definition of what it means to be Catholic," and a Change.org petition demanding the chiefs release him has more than 220,000 signatures... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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