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The NFL’s Condemnation Of Harrison Butker Exemplifies The Left’s Anti-Christian Bigotry
The Federalist ^ | 05/16/2024 | John Daniel Davidson

Posted on 05/16/2024 9:49:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

In corporate America today, there’s a permission structure in place to attack, defame, and destroy anyone who dares to be publicly Christian.

It didn’t take long for the NFL to come out and condemn recent remarks from Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, saying his views, given during a commencement speech at Benedictine College over the weekend, “are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.”

What horrible, non-inclusive things did the 28-year-old Butker say? He committed the crime of giving public witness to his faith, espousing views every faithful Catholic holds — along with a great many non-Catholic Christians.

“Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values and media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder,” he said. Butker also heaped heartfelt praise on his wife, Isabelle, and told female graduates that whatever career success they might achieve, their most important title will be “homemaker.”

“Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world,” he said, eliciting spontaneous cheers from his audience.

This was too much for the NFL — an organization that, as my Federalist colleague Sean Davis noted on X, “was quicker to condemn Butker for being a Christian than it was to condemn Ray Rice for caving in his fiancée’s head on camera and then dragging her lifeless body through the hall.”

The NFL of course has a long and rich tradition of defending degenerate and even criminal behavior by prominent players, like when Rice was arrested and charged with double homicide in 2000 after a Super Bowl XXXIV party in Atlanta. Good thing Rice didn’t come out and say he was pro-life.

The NFL’s rank hypocrisy is just one example of how the reaction to Butker’s speech confirms that orthodox Christians are the one group in America today that it’s okay to hate. Faithful Catholics of course come in for special scorn. The geniuses over at “The View” happily indulged in some rank anti-Catholic bigotry following Butker’s remarks, essentially accusing him of betraying true Christianity and “not following Jesus.”

A Change.org petition circulated this week calling on the Kansas City Chiefs to dismiss Butker. USA Today ran a column declaring that Butker has “extremist, Neanderthalic” views, and that he represents an “extremist” and “hateful” worldview that wants to drag women back to the bad old days.

None of this should surprise us by now. The post-Christian left has erected a neopagan religion of its own, a kind of inversion of Christianity that consists of an unstable admixture of abortion, sexual liberation, gender ideology, and identity politics. If you speak against any of those things, you have committed blasphemy and must be targeted and destroyed.

Because faithful Catholics categorically reject all these things, as Butker articulated in his speech, anti-Catholic bigotry isn’t just accepted and encouraged in mainstream institutions, it’s a kind of badge of honor. The more you hate on and denigrate and defame the most faithful Catholics, the more you’re thought to be an upstanding, moral person. This way of thinking is ingrained in corporate America and across all our mainstream institutions. Anti-Christian, and especially anti-Catholic, bigotry is the last acceptable prejudice in America.

For such people, there can be only one faith in post-Christian America. They are not going to share a republic with people like Butker, and will do whatever they can to silence, deplatform, and discredit every prominent Christian who stands against them. At the same time, they’re willing to promote, support, and amplify self-professed Christians like David French who are willing to attack people like Butker, who are demeaned as not “true Christians.”

Whether you’re Catholic or not, this should concern you. You don’t even have to be Christian. If you just want to be left alone, to live and let live, you need to understand that the left is not going to allow that.

We have to get it through our heads that these people are intolerant zealots — the very thing they accuse Catholics like Butker of being. They are not going to stop until every dissenting Christian has been driven from public life, which means that things are going to get much worse. And we should be prepared for that.


John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come.


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: bigotry; christianity; harrisonbutker; nfl
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1 posted on 05/16/2024 9:49:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Fortunately no one— and I mean NO ONE— gives a fart about what “the NFL” thinks .


2 posted on 05/16/2024 9:53:06 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: hinckley buzzard

I certainly DON’T. I gave up on the national felon league after Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson got into trouble.


3 posted on 05/16/2024 10:09:03 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nutmeg

bookmark


4 posted on 05/16/2024 10:12:38 PM PDT by nutmeg (FJB)
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To: SeekAndFind
Atheism is an establishment of religion, too.

It is a religion that has been officially respected, sanctioned, protected, preached, and imposed more than any other.

While the merest suggestion of Christian virtues and morality get condemned as being "divisive", not "inclusive", "intolerant" and that it "shouldn't be shoved down our throats."

Atheism in control of culture has had more than its fair share of time and power. It's time for something else to have its turn.

5 posted on 05/16/2024 10:14:09 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America needs deliberalization like Germany needed denazification.)
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To: SeekAndFind

bttt


6 posted on 05/16/2024 10:15:40 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: SeekAndFind
NFL is a complete fraud, and entertainment venue that all these fans believe in....they pay huge salaries so the players don't squeal...

we need to find different heroes.

7 posted on 05/16/2024 10:19:36 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Ciaphas Cain

My thoughts exactly.


8 posted on 05/16/2024 10:57:18 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: cherry

Here’s the best hero: Jesus Christ.


9 posted on 05/16/2024 10:57:40 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ex-Chiefs cheerleader goes scorched earth on Harrison Butker: ‘Stay in your f–king lane’

https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/sports/ex-chiefs-cheerleader-goes-scorched-earth-on-harrison-butker/


10 posted on 05/16/2024 11:52:48 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Harrison Butker’s speech is such a breath of fresh air. Benedictine College’s official video of the speech has approximately one million views after only 5 days. Besides raising the ire of all the haters, the speech will genuinely touch many, many listeners, particularly young people. With the seed planted by this tremendous speech, many souls will discover or rediscover Jesus Christ as well as traditional values and pro-life beliefs. I’m 100% sure that numerous listeners found themselves Googling many of the topics upon which Harrison touched.


11 posted on 05/17/2024 12:34:52 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: cherry

Nfl football is really killing itself.
I stopped watching a few years ago. No need to worship the players. Haven’t watched more than one whole game total in last 3 years. I use super bowl Sunday as day to go outdoors when everyone else engorges themself indoors.


12 posted on 05/17/2024 12:38:21 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: SeekAndFind

‘Harrison Butker Does Not Reflect Our Values,’ Says League Of Woman Beaters

https://babylonbee.com/news/harrison-butker-does-not-reflect-our-values-says-league-of-woman-beaters


13 posted on 05/17/2024 12:58:01 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Wonder how many takes it took for the pretentious bitch to record that?


14 posted on 05/17/2024 1:02:21 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: No name given
They certainly ran off a lot of fans years ago. I can hardly watch NASCAR for similar reasons. And I much preferred NASCAR. I don't think I've watched even 5% of a NASCAR race since then. I can only watch a little NHRA if I'm in a hotel room and that's not happening right now, anyways.


15 posted on 05/17/2024 1:43:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Libloather

Yikes. I just looked.

Definitely a woman to avoid.


16 posted on 05/17/2024 1:46:48 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder why the nfl commented? The guy was not at work when he said what he said. Now, had he been at the mic during a postgame interview, that would be different. They may want to clarify he speaks for himself, not for the league. Furthermore, they could justifiably ask him to not talk about religion while at work bc it isn’t good for business. But, when a guy is in his own time, the nfl needs to stfu.


17 posted on 05/17/2024 1:49:34 AM PDT by Mustangman
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To: Libloather

A conservative Catholic says conservative Catholic things at a conservative Catholic college and people are agog?

No diversity of thought allowed?


18 posted on 05/17/2024 2:02:30 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: SeekAndFind
What horrible, non-inclusive things did the 28-year-old Butker say?

He said that children need mothers and fathers in the home.

Ironically, it's the essentially the same thing Bill Cosby said in a May 17, 2004 speech to the NAACP on the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education.

But these people, the ones up here in the balcony fought so hard.

Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! And then we all run out and are outraged, 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.'

What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else, and I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said, 'If you get caught with it you're going to embarrass your mother.' Not 'You're going to get your butt kicked.' No. 'You're going to embarrass your family.'

...In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. In the old days, you couldn't hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye. And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had on and where you got it from. Parents don't know that today.

Although the allegations against Cosby of repeated sexual assaults of women date back to the mid-1960s, the floodgates of women going public with their recollections didn't begin until January 2005, eight months after the NAACP speech.

Coincidence, or was the black grievance lobby retaliating against what "America's Dad" had said about black families?

And now we have the NFL stepping into the fray against a white Catholic placekicker who spoke about the role of mothers and fathers in their children's lives to a graduating class at a Catholic college.

-PJ

19 posted on 05/17/2024 2:24:07 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SeekAndFind

Screw the NFL. They have become another institution aligned with the left’s goal of destroying America. NASCAR tried it with the noose incident but that fell flat on its face. Destroying an institution like the NFL has been a goal of the left for ages.

As a small aside, I am triggered when I hear the word “Yankee.” I think Major league baseball needs to force the Yankees to change their name.


20 posted on 05/17/2024 3:24:12 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Give the Anti-Israel Protesters a one way ticket to fight with Hamas. )
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