Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker found himself dealing with a whirlwind of off-season criticism for his faith-based commencement speech at Benedictine College.
Butker urged graduates to embrace being “homemakers” and criticized the LGBTQ community and President Biden for his stance on abortion. She added: “[T]Issues such as abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as increasing support for degenerate cultural values and media, are a consequence of the omnipresence of disorder.
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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker celebrates after scoring against the Chicago Bears on Aug. 22, 2024. (Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports)
Super Bowl-winning head coach Tony Dungy said in an interview on OutKick's “Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich” that he thought critics misinterpreted what he said.
“I think it was taken totally out of context… if you listen to what she was saying, there was nothing that would offend you,” Dungy said. “She said a lot of these women will have great careers, but some of them, and a lot of them, might find that the most important thing in their life is to be a mother, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.”
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Tony Dungy (Chris Unger/Getty Images/File)
“I've done a lot of things and I've received a lot of accolades that the world would give you, and the most meaningful thing in my life has been being a father. So I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that. They probably didn't like the way he said it, and he was speaking, you know, to a cross-cultural audience. I understand all that. He was speaking to a very limited audience in a limited context, and I thought it was taken totally out of context.”
Dungy understood some of the criticism because of his belief in God and his way of talking about the Bible.
“I don't think there's necessarily a right way to say it for a lot of people. I'm a Christian, I know I get criticized for that, and sometimes when you bring up those values and say this is what the Bible says and this is what I stand for, [and if] “People don't believe in the Bible and they don't want to hear that, so they'll get angry,” he said.
Harrison Butker, Kansas City Chiefs kicker (Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports)
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“But that's how I talk, that's how I stand, and I think Harrison feels the same way. And if you're talking about biblical principles, there's always going to be people who get offended and say you should keep that out of our sport, keep that out of politics, keep your religious beliefs to yourself, and unfortunately for them, I'm not going to do that. So sometimes that comes across as off-putting.”
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