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Harrison Butker is right: All in the name of “Professional career” most woman get it wrong as a mother. Here’s the details
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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has been busy making headlines of the wrong kind recently, making a speech that went viral at the Benedictine College commencement ceremony recently.
During the speech, Butker referenced modern women’s roles in the household and how his wife sacrificed her career to take up a more traditional – at least in his eyes – role.
He spoke of how his wife’s life: “really started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. Isabelle’s dream of having a career might not have come true, but if you asked her today if she has any regrets on her decision, she would laugh out loud, without hesitation, and say, ‘Heck, no.'”
He added: “For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment…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.”
And indeed how his mother, Elizabeth Keller, thinks. Keller spent as much as 35 years as a medical physicist at the prestigious Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1985 and later earned a master’s.
While blazing a career in physics, Keller raised two children, including Harrison and his older sister Charlotte, who played soccer at Emory. All that completely contradicts Butker’s view that women should focus on marriage and raising a family rather than enjoying productive careers like their male counterparts.
Butker’s other comments
Butker also said: “Sadly, I’m sure many of you know the countless stories of good and active members of this community who, after graduation and moving away from the Benedictine bubble, have ended up moving in with their boyfriend or girlfriend prior to marriage.
“Some even leave the Church and abandon God. It is always heartbreaking to hear these stories, and there is a desire to know what happened and what went wrong.”
Some even leave the Church and abandon God. It is always heartbreaking to hear these stories, and there is a desire to know what happened and what went wrong.”
Aside from all that, the kicker criticized the use of birth control, abortion and IVF therapy. He referred to all of those things as “disorder”.