{"id":2246184,"date":"2024-05-16T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-nfls-condemnation-of-harrison-butker-exemplifies-the-lefts-anti-christian-bigotry\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T16:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:10:03","slug":"the-nfls-condemnation-of-harrison-butker-exemplifies-the-lefts-anti-christian-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-nfls-condemnation-of-harrison-butker-exemplifies-the-lefts-anti-christian-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"The NFL Criticism of Harrison Butker Reflects Anti-Christian Bias in the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-nfls-condemnation-of-harrison-butker-exemplifies-the-lefts-anti-christian-bigotry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2246184&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The NFL quickly condemned\u2062 Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-biden-officials-keep-lying-about-the-trump-admin-not-having-a-vaccine-plan\/\" title=\"RNC: Biden officials keep lying about the Trump admin. not having a vaccine plan\">controversial remarks<\/a> at a \u2063college <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-mocked-trump-last-september-i-run-up-ramps-he-stumbles-down-ramps\/\" title=\"WATCH: Biden Mocked Trump Last September: \u2018I Run Up Ramps\u2019 He \u2018Stumbles Down Ramps\u2019\">commencement speech<\/a>. Butker\u200b expressed traditional Christian views that clashed \u2062with the\u200c NFL&#8217;s inclusivity stance. The incident\u2064 highlights\u2062 bias against orthodox Christians, especially\u200c faithful Catholics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-announces-california-gubernatorial-run-as-newsom-recall-nears-threshold\/\" title=\"Republican Announces California Gubernatorial Run as Newsom Recall Nears Threshold\">facing criticism<\/a> from various\u2064 sources. \u200dThe situation\u2063 underscores societal challenges facing \u200bindividuals with \u200cconservative beliefs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long for the NFL to <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/05\/15\/entertainment\/nfl-condemns-harrison-butkers-sexist-anti-lgbtq-graduation-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">come out and condemn<\/a> recent remarks from Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, saying his views, given during a commencement speech at Benedictine College over the weekend, \u201care not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What horrible, non-inclusive things did the 28-year-old Butker say? He committed the crime of giving public witness to his faith, espousing views every faithful Catholic holds \u2014 along with a great many non-Catholic Christians.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1073916801\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-26a9cecc54acf6cd55289a8926cb8f73 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-26a9cecc54acf6cd55289a8926cb8f73\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThings like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-casts-doubt-on-chinese-claims-of-growing-support-for-human-rights-record\/\" title=\"U.N. Casts Doubt on Chinese Claims of Growing Support for Human Rights Record\">growing support<\/a> for degenerate cultural values and media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder,\u201d he said. Butker also heaped heartfelt praise on his wife, Isabelle, and told female graduates that whatever career success they might achieve, their most important title will be \u201chomemaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world,\u201d he said, eliciting spontaneous cheers from his audience.<\/p>\n<p>This was too much for the NFL \u2014 an organization that, as my Federalist colleague Sean Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1791150475133304868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted on X<\/a>, \u201cwas quicker to condemn Butker for being a Christian than it was to condemn Ray Rice for caving in his fianc\u00e9e\u2019s head on camera and then dragging her lifeless body through the hall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NFL of course has a long and rich tradition of defending degenerate and even criminal behavior by prominent players, like when Rice was arrested and charged with double homicide in 2000 after a Super Bowl XXXIV party in Atlanta. Good thing Rice didn\u2019t come out and say he was pro-life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8468213677396493539255f1d567826d fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8468213677396493539255f1d567826d\"><\/div>\n<p>The NFL\u2019s rank hypocrisy is just one example of how the reaction to Butker\u2019s speech confirms that orthodox Christians are the one group in America today that it\u2019s okay to hate. Faithful Catholics of course come in for special scorn. The geniuses over at \u201cThe View\u201d happily indulged in some rank anti-Catholic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campaign-2024-an-early-look-at-the-possible-republican-contenders\/\" title=\"Campaign 2024: An Early Look At The Possible Republican Contenders\">bigotry<\/a> following Butker\u2019s remarks, essentially accusing him of betraying true Christianity and \u201cnot following Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"BPeEsryS95ZxJabogkn1VKt6wXRv4fWQYupHIdCqiDl27GMc0UF38AThO\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wild anti-Catholic bigotry from The View. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yO6roosheD\">pic.twitter.com\/yO6roosheD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CatholicVote (@CatholicVote) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatholicVote\/status\/1791166805819474272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A Change.org petition circulated this week calling on the Kansas City Chiefs to dismiss Butker. USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/columnist\/mike-freeman\/2024\/05\/15\/harrison-butker-commencement-speech\/73682471007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ran a column<\/a> declaring that Butker has \u201cextremist, Neanderthalic\u201d views, and that he represents an \u201cextremist\u201d and \u201chateful\u201d worldview that wants to drag women back to the bad old days.<\/p>\n<p>None of this should surprise us by now. The post-Christian left has erected a neopagan religion of its own, a kind of inversion of Christianity that consists of an unstable admixture of abortion, sexual liberation, gender ideology, and identity politics. If you speak against any of those things, you have committed blasphemy and must be targeted and destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Because faithful Catholics categorically reject all these things, as Butker articulated in his speech, anti-Catholic bigotry isn\u2019t just accepted and encouraged in mainstream institutions, it\u2019s a kind of badge of honor. The more you hate on and denigrate and defame the most faithful Catholics, the more you\u2019re thought to be an upstanding, moral person. This way of thinking is ingrained in corporate America and across all our mainstream institutions. Anti-Christian, and especially anti-Catholic, bigotry is the last acceptable prejudice in America.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b260b6443b9a893d6438255adc88043b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b260b6443b9a893d6438255adc88043b\"><\/div>\n<p>For such people, there can be only one faith in post-Christian America. They are not going to share a republic with people like Butker, and will do whatever they can to silence, deplatform, and discredit every prominent Christian who stands against them. At the same time, they\u2019re willing to promote, support, and amplify self-professed Christians like David French who are willing to attack people like Butker, who are demeaned as not \u201ctrue Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re Catholic or not, this should concern you. You don\u2019t even have to be Christian. If you just want to be left alone, to live and let live, you need to understand that the left is not going to allow that. <\/p>\n<p>We have to get it through our heads that these people are intolerant zealots \u2014 the very thing they accuse Catholics like Butker of being. They are not going to stop until every dissenting Christian has been driven from public life, which means that things are going to get much worse. And we should be prepared for that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c6c638ce5f66498739e5e96597d1a6e3 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c6c638ce5f66498739e5e96597d1a6e3\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL swiftly denounced Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker&#8217;s recent remarks at a college commencement speech. The league clarified that his views do not represent the NFL&#8217;s stance. The NFL emphasizes its dedication to inclusivity, reinforcing its principles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2246185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Harrison-Butker.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Harrison-Butker.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}