Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker is being pilloried by the left for giving a commonsense, conservative, Christ-centered commencement speech at Benedictine College.
Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker is being pilloried by the left for giving a commonsense, conservative, Christ-centered commencement speech at Benedictine College.
A petition to “demand” the Kansas City Chiefs fire Butker has garnered over 188,000 signatures. It calls Butker’s remarks “dehumanizing against LGBTQ+ individuals,” an “attack on abortion rights” and “racially discriminatory.” It causes one to wonder, “How many of these people have actually listened to his speech?”
Sara Haines, a co-host on “The View,” remarked that Harrison Butker’s Catholic faith is a “very extreme religion,” and suggested that he is “not walking with Jesus.”
But anyone who has watched Butker’s remarks can see he was not filled with hate, animus, or a desire to dehumanize anyone.
In fact, his remarks have those on the left up in arms because he spoke out bravely and powerfully against many of our modern culture’s favorite sins — like abortion, surrogacy and “transgenderism,” for example — while lauding motherhood and masculinity.
Abortion activists are fully committed to seeing as many abortion-related ballot initiatives as possible on the ballot this November.
To date, they have a 100% success rate at defeating pro-life ballot measures and advancing abortion initiatives.
Ultimately, abortion activists would like to see a so-called right to abortion in all 50 state constitutions.
Many of the states targeted for abortion-related ballot measures in this election cycle are states that have pro-life laws in place protecting women and babies from abortion.
If an abortion amendment passes in one of those states, it may invalidate pro-life laws already in place, which makes the stakes even more significant.
The pro-life community must actively engage at the state level to defeat these measures.
Votes on Abortion-Related Ballot Measures Since Roe’s Reversal
Since Roe’s reversal in June of 2022, there have been seven votes on abortion-related statewide ballot measures, and in each instance, the pro-life position lost.
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed a Help Not Harm law, protecting children from damaging and experimental “transgender” medical interventions, such as puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries.
The bill overwhelmingly passed the South Caroline House and Senate, as the Daily Citizen recently reported.
The legislation, H. 4624, states,
“A physician, mental health provider, or other health care professional shall not engage in the provision or performance of gender transition procedures to a person under eighteen years of age.”
The new law also protects parental rights in education, prohibiting school staff from withholding important information from parents regarding a child’s sexual identity confusion, stating: “A nurse, counselor, teacher, principal, or other official or staff at a public school shall not knowingly:
“(1) encourage or coerce a minor to withhold from the minor’s parent or legal guardian the fact that the minor’s perception of his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex; or
“(2) withhold from a minor’s parent or legal guardian information related to the minor’s perception that his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex.”
South Carolina is the 24th state to pass such a ban on drugs, hormones and surgeries for sexually confused minors, according to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBT advocacy group.
Socially conservative women have been boldly, bravely and courageously speaking out. It might even beg the question: Do conservative-leaning women have more guts than men who may otherwise believe the same things but are reluctant to speak up and invite criticism?
Earlier this week, Allie Beth Stuckey, 32 years old and a married mother of three who hosts the popular podcast, Relatable, tweeted:
“Sometimes I feel like I just need to remind everyone that abortion kills an innocent human being. It’s not a political issue. No nuance. No needle to thread. Shouldn’t be up for debate.
“There is no ‘right’ to kill an innocent person. It should always be illegal.”
A few days earlier she responded to the Kansas City Chiefs’ Harrison Butker flap this way:
“Harrison Butker tipped over all the sacred cows — abortion, IVF/surrogacy, anti-motherhood, anti-masculinity, etc. — and instead promoted the enemies of our cultural rot: fatherhood, marriage, courage, purity, sacrifice, respecting the dignity of life. That’s why people are screeching. They don’t like their idols threatened, and they have a profound disdain for goodness and truth.”
Just yesterday, Kristen Waggoner, president of Alliance Defending Freedom, tweeted the following:
“When we said, ‘See you in court, @POTUS,’ over the admin’s attempts to force gender ideology into schools, we meant it.”
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma on Tuesday — more than a year after six college students first accused the national sorority of improperly initiating a man.
Jaylyn Westenbroek, Hannah Holtmeier, Allie Coghan, Maddie Ramar, Grace Choate and Megan Kosar were all members of Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) at the University of Wyoming in December 2022, when their chapter initiated Artemis Langford, a man who identifies as a woman, into their sisterhood.
Westenbroek and company took KKG and its fraternity council president to court just four months later, arguing the sorority broke its own bylaws by admitting Langford, a man — a decision the women allege exposed them to sexual harassment and emotional harm.
U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson dismissed the women’s case in July 2023 after upholding KKG’s right to “interpret” their own bylaws — including what it means to be a woman.
The appellants hope Judges McHugh, Murphy and Federico will reverse Johnson’s ruling — and they aren’t alone.
A crowd of well-wishers, including all-American swimmer and activist Riley Gaines, joined them in court Tuesday to show their support.
May Mailman, the director of the Independent Women’s Law Center and the women’s attorney, argued the merits of the case were sound and should be reconsidered.
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