Posted on 05/20/2024 4:46:05 PM PDT by Morgana
Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Thursday said he is investigating the office of Democratic Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas after it reportedly “doxxed” Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker in an X (formerly Twitter) post.
The alleged leaking of Butker’s personal information came days after he gave the commencement address at Benedictine College in Kansas over the weekend.
There, Butker encouraged graduates at the small Catholic college to “be authentically and unapologetically Catholic.” He also spoke positively about marriage and motherhood, but criticized the abortion industry and the LGBTQ movement.
Bailey wrote to Lucas in a letter dated Thursday: “It has been reported that the city of Kansas City has retaliated against a well-respected local resident and member of the Kansas City Chiefs after he spoke about his religious views.”
The attorney general continued:
Your office’s X account likely publicly released residential location information on a private citizen, Harrison Butker, in an attempt to retaliate against him for expressing his sincerely held religious beliefs at a religious college’s commencement ceremony–to an audience that largely shares his views.
“Use of government social media to retaliate against an individual based on their religious beliefs amounts to discriminatory behavior that is not tolerated under our Constitution or Missouri statute,” Bailey cautioned.
In his letter, Bailey specified that “Missouri law specifically prohibits faith-based discrimination against Missouri residents.”
“Yet, your office apparently believes it is appropriate to denigrate a devout Catholic for comments he made about his own faith at a religious college,” Bailey wrote to Lucas. “Missouri’s Human Rights Act prohibits government actors from discriminating against citizens because of their sincerely held religious beliefs.”
“In addition to the city of Kansas City’s attack on Mr. Butker, there is an effort to force his employer to take disciplinary action against him,” the attorney general wrote, referring to a petition that has garnered over 190,000 signatures in four days.
“To any employer or government official considering such a move, I assure you that I am prepared to use the authority provided in statute to defend the principle of free religious expression,” Bailey wrote.
Kansas City’s X account eventually deleted its controversial post. The account wrote on Wednesday night:
“We apologies for our previous tweet. It was shared in error.”
Butker should sue Kansas City under civil rights statutes for at least $100 million.
Good for the MO AG.
Hahahaha, gulp....cough....hahahaha. That will fix things.....NOT!
Needs to happen more often.
Democrats need to be rounded and put in gas chambers. Hitler style.
Or we could just give them all free helicopter rides.
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Yup- long, long, long past time we turn the tables on this lawfare game
Here is an article from 2023
https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/kansas-city-chiefs-2023-real-estate/
“Make lawfare a two-way street”!
Butker should sue Kansas City under civil rights statutes for at least $100 million.
You got that right. Have any of his teammates come to encourage him? This woke crap is nothing but CYA! God bless Butker!
Make the City of KC pay Butker $5 million in damages, just to make leftists’ heads spin.
Please don’t let evil people turn you to evil. I struggle not to hate them because of where that hate takes me. If we are to fantasize it should be to remove them from power and disenfranchise them. There are some who deserve punishment but removed from power most leftists are pitiable.
“We apologies for our previous tweet. It was shared in error”
What, it didn’t have enough information? They were going to add more and then some Trump supporter snuck into their office and accidentally hit send? The mayor thought the “SEND” button was an acronym?
“It was shared in error”
No kidding. What a stinking load of hogwash. We all know how those bastards play the game. They do the damage, then claim “it was an error, we are so sorry.” But the damage is done.
I hope the bastards in the KC Mayor’s get sued to oblivion.
Treat Democratic Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas the way DemocRATs are treating J6 detainees. Prison for years awaiting trial.
Why should the taxpayers be punished collectively - financially - for a bonehead in the Mayor’s office?
Because that’s what happens. Lawsuits that are successful against schools or the cop shop work the same way. The city floats another bond. Throw it on the pile with the rest of ‘em.
Good point. Can’t deny that. Can they be personally sued?
I hate the fact that we are at war with a worm who uses spoiled children, cheats, fakes, liars and men on womens’s hormones.
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