Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker faces backlash for graduation speech criticizing working women, calling Pride a ‘deadly sin’ while quoting Taylor Swift

Butker lambasted the fall of traditional Catholic values within society, telling the crowd of graduates that “abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values and media” were a byproduct of “the pervasiveness of disorder”. He noted that President Biden was only promoting the degeneration of these values by making it seem as though “you can be both Catholic and pro-choice”.

He then geared his speech toward the female audience members, saying that they’ve been told “diabolical lies” concerning their roles in society. He told them they shouldn’t pursue a career, noting that in his personal experience, his family was successful because his wife became a homemaker. “Her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother

he claimed.The kicker continued to lambast the evolution of gender roles within the modern era, accusing world leaders of perpetuating the idea that women could also pursue careers and goals outside of motherhood and childbearing. He said that “pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America” would only cause them to stray for the righteous path.