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Backfire on Leftist Narrative: Harrison Butker Women's Jerseys Sell Out after NFL Kicker's Pro-Family Commencement Speech

Calvin Freiburger : May 21, 2024  LifeSiteNews.com

Sales indicate that female fans, one of the groups most 'attacked,' according to the Kansas City Chiefs player's detractors, did not hear in his remarks what leftist wanted them to.

[LifeSiteNews.com] While left-wing activists attempt to depict Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker as an "extremist" for a recent speech forcefully applying Catholic values to modern controversies, sales of his jersey indicate his message resonates with the actual mainstream of the United States. (Screengrab image: via CBS Sports)

On May 11, the 28-year-old Super Bowl champion set off a national conversation in his speech to this year's graduates of Catholic Benedictine College in which he touched on numerous current political and cultural divisions, including self-proclaimed "Catholic" politicians supporting abortion, COVID lockdowns, and LGBT ideology as well as contemporary messages directing young girls away from family in the name of career.

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The speech led to a wave of support from conservative listeners and condemnation from left-wing voices. The National Football League (NFL) distanced its "commitment to inclusion" from Butker's "personal" opinions, a group of left-wing nuns associated with the school, the Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, condemned his "narrow definition of what it means to be Catholic," and a Change.org petition demanding the chiefs release him has more than 220,000 signatures... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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