AMERICAN FOOTBALL: Harrison Butker, the Chiefs’ kicker, erupts during Pride Month, and Biden gives a graduating speech.

Butker is a three-time Super Bowl champion who has made no secret of his staunch Catholic convictions.

Missouri’s Kansas City At last weekend’s Benedictine College commencement, Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker attacked Pride Month, President Biden’s handling of the epidemic, and his views on abortion.

The roughly 20-minute speech was given by the three-time Super Bowl champion on Saturday at the private Catholic liberal arts school located 60 miles north of Kansas City in Atchison, Kansas.

Known for his staunchly Catholic views, Butker opened his speech by criticizing “dangerous gender ideologies,” ostensibly in reference to Pride Month, which has been observed in June every year since the Stonewall riots of 1969. In addition, he took issue with an Associated Press report that described the Catholic Church as moving toward conservatism in certain areas.

The 28-year-old Butker then criticized Biden’s actions, notably his handling of Covid, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates has killed close to 1.2 million Americans.

“Although Covid may have had a significant influence on you during your early years, it is not exceptional,” he stated. “Major life issues have been badly impacted by the terrible policies and inadequate leadership. Abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, and an increasing acceptance of the media and degenerate cultural ideals are all products of the pervasiveness of disorder.

Butker went on to address the ladies in the audience, saying that being a “homemaker” should be their “most important title.”

Butker remarked, “I believe the most devilish lies have been told to you, the women.” I’m going to predict that the majority of you are most excited about getting married and starting a family, even though some of you may go on to have prosperous jobs. I can assure you that my lovely wife Isabelle would be the first to tell you that she felt her life began to truly begin when she began to fulfill her role as a wife and mother.

Regarding Butker’s commencement speech, the Chiefs chose not to respond.

Georgia Tech’s seventh-round selection in 2017 has developed into one of the NFL’s top kickers, shattering the Chiefs’ franchise record in 2022 with a 62-yard field goal. Butker kicked the field goal that forced overtime in a Super Bowl victory over San Francisco in February, and he also added a second Lombardi Trophy in 2023. Butker helped them win their first Super Bowl in fifty years in 2020.

However, the Chiefs’ offseason has been ugly.

A ballot measure that would have helped finance the construction of a downtown ballpark for the Royals and a $800 million makeover to Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Chiefs, was decisively rejected by voters in Jackson County, Missouri, last month. A significant number of voters disapproved of the Chiefs’ plan, arguing that it catered mostly to wealthy and VIP individuals.

The same week, after he was engaged in a high-speed collision that injured four people, wide receiver Rashee Rice turned himself in to Dallas police on a number of charges, including aggravated assault. Video shows Rice fleeing the scene without exchanging information or ascertaining whether anyone needed medical assistance. Rice has admitted to being the driver of one of the sports vehicles that was traveling at speeds above 100 mph.

Although Dallas police did not identify Rice as a suspect in a detailed report to The Associated Press, law enforcement sources told The Dallas Morning News last week that Rice was also suspected of beating someone at a downtown nightclub.

After speaking with the receiver, Chiefs coach Andy Reid stated that the team was allowing the legal process to go.