The NFL apparently won’t sanction Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker for a controversial commencement speech.
Butker spoke at Benedictine College last Saturday. The Georgia Tech alum blasted the LGTBQ campaign, Joe Biden, abortion rights, and women in the work force.
Many people wondered if NFL owners would circle the wagons as they were alleged to have done with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
The NFL, however, quickly struck down the idea. Although the League did clarify that it doesn’t agree with his views.
“Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity,” Jonathan Bean, the NFL’s senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, told PEOPLE in a written statement.
“His views are not those of the NFL as an organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.”
Butker drew praise and criticism for his speech in which he lambasted President Biden for allowing “the slaughter of innocent babies” with abortion. He also recommended that the graduating women in the audience would be happier as homemakers rather than pursing jobs in America’s work force.
“For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment,” he said. “I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you.”
The Chiefs and Butker did not immediately respond to the NFL’s commentary.
[People]
