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Harrison Butker is the placekicker for the Kansas City Chiefs and a devout Catholic who believes in the importance of family. In his recent commencement address at Benedictine University in Kansas (a Catholic college), he raised up the importance of family. Unfortunately, some of those who were hearing the speech were deaf to the message because they focused on a couple of sentences. The social media universe was burning up with offended modernists who overheated on his suggestion that some of the young women would be looking forward to the opportunity to get married and raise children more than the careers they would have.

Immediately, offended folk called for the Chiefs to cut him from their team and for the National Football League to take action against him. His message was construed to mean that women should be back in the kitchen and not in the workplace. The truth is, Butker never hinted that the grads couldn’t be a mom and have a career or have a career but not be a mom. His own mom, the lady who modeled motherhood for him, is a medical physicist at Emory University, an occupation I wouldn’t be able to even spell correctly if it weren’t for Grammerly.

His point got lost in all the huffing and puffing that sought to blow him down. He was raising the importance of family in a time when it is often devalued. Taken to a deeper level, individual rights and freedom have become sacred while the importance of family has become irrelevant, a relic left over from the old ways.

Even Bill Maher came to Butker’s defense. He said this:

“I don’t see what the big crime is. I really don’t, and I think this is part of the problem people have with the left. Is that lots of people in the country are like this. Like, he’s saying, ‘Some of you may go on to lead successful careers, but a lot of you are excited about this other way that everybody used to be.’ And, now, can’t that just be a choice too?”

Evidently, for some, it’s now seen as a way of degrading women, minimizing their importance.

My only wish is that Harrison would have raised the importance of the coming opportunity of marriage and fatherhood to the graduating men. I’m guessing that if he had challenged them to be a strong presence in their kids’ lives, to place more value on their family than their career, he would have received standing applause.

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