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Looks like the canceling didn’t take. Real Americans value a man with faith and strong convictions. Sorry, leftists.
What, exactly, did Butker say in the polarizing speech delivered before the Catholic liberal arts college’s graduating class in Atchison, Kansas on May 11?
During the 20-minute speech, Butker, who is Catholic himself, said he intended to say the “difficult stuff out loud.” In his own words, he has “gained quite the reputation for speaking my mind.”
In one particularly scrutinized segment, Butker addressed “the women” graduates directly in an attempt to counter the “most diabolical lies” they have been told. More than professional achievements, he said they should be excited to take on the “vocation” of homemaker, using his own wife, Isabelle Butker, as an example.
He shared that his wife’s life “really started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother,” and later said, “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 urged the men in the graduating class to be “unapologetic in your masculinity, fighting against the cultural emasculation of men.”
The wide-ranging speech also touched on pride, birth control, COVID restrictions, “dangerous gender ideologies” and Catholic principles.
Butker described Catholic pride as “not the deadly sin sort of pride that has an entire month dedicated to it, but true God-centered pride,” an apparent dig at Pride Month.