Posted on 10/17/2024 1:46:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The owner of the Kansas City Chiefs said Wednesday that he has no issue with kicker Harrison Butker forming a political action committee designed to encourage Christians to vote for what the PAC describes as "traditional values."
Butker announced his Upright PAC last weekend, during the Chiefs' bye, in a series of postings on social media.
"One of the things I talk to the players every year about at training camp is using their platform to make a difference," Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said. "We have players on both sides of the political spectrum, both sides of whatever controversial issue you want to bring up. I'm not at all concerned when our players use their platform to make a difference." Butker is front-and-center on the website of the Upright PAC along with Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, who earned the kicker's endorsement ahead of the general election against Democrat Lucas Kunce.
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The Hunt family are big Christians.
I’m sure they are applauding everything Butker says behind the scenes. Too bad they don’t do so publicly.
How kind to be ok with him having constitutional rights. .
So good of this man to say this
What is this? A communist country?
The employer has to approve that someone abides the constitution?
What a freakin marroon!!!
Free speech should be a two way street
Make a communist manifesto checklist...
Check it twice...
If at least one item has been attained, this is a communist country...
That definition has applied to this country for many decades...
The slope has been, and always will be, very slippery...
For many people, it is blissful to not be aggravated by the chains around ones neck...
The entire NFL can adopt BLM, but heaven forbid one single player stand up for family values.
Bingo-—Capernick never realized that he is just a paid actor on a field of green and he was paid bucks to entertain—not sermonize—
Off the field—whatever flips the skirt...
Mighty white of him to allow a player to form a pac, instead of forcing BLM politics inside the stadium and on the field./src.
What’s the NFL...? 🤔
I guess I’m seeing this differently than most other people here. If we’re going to avoid the depths of socialism on the one hand or a bloody civil war on the other, we’re going to have to claw back our rights one at a time, one situation at a time, one person at a time, one political office at a time. So this is a step in the right direction; it may lead to other corrections in the NFL or other pro sports.
Yes, it should be without question for a person on his own, outside of his profession, to speak his/her mind; that was the essence of Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” which was part of the basis for the concept of free speech as a negative right. So let’s be grateful for this step, and push for the next one, and the next one.
Agreed.
I know. So nice of them.
Why is espn making a issue of this player. I so hate all media
Great owner, great kicker, great men.
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