Liberal Writer Defends Harrison Butker’s Freedom of Speech to Defend Motherhood

Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College that caused a media firestorm earlier this month shouldn’t be controversial at all because he’s Catholic, a progressive columnist recently wrote.

Kat Rosenfield wrote for the Free Press that the media blew Butker’s speech out of proportion, as they forgot that it was aimed at a specific group of people.

“Butker’s speech was very trad and frequently interrupted by the audience, who, rather than being affronted, kept erupting in cheers and applause,” she wrote, continuing:

Perhaps they did not realize that this speech by a Catholic kicker at a Catholic university wasn’t for them, the Catholic graduating seniors. It was for me, a 42-year-old woman in New England eating peanut butter straight out of the jar because a sandwich seemed like too much work.

Or at least, that’s what it feels like: for days now, the story of Butker’s speech and subsequent backlash, including a statement of denuciation from the NFL itself, has been the subject of wall-to-wall coverage from The New York Times to People magazine. It’s as if the media has set aside its differences in service of a single unified mission: to make sure I know this happened and that I am good and mad at it.

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Rosenfield added that Butker’s comments aren’t original, as similar statements have been made in thousands of speeches by “faith leaders of all stripes.”

“Given the sheer diversity of ideology in this country, there’s probably something in there to offend everyone! But this is America; isn’t freedom of speech and assembly, no matter how offensive some might find the ideas involved, kind of what we do here?” Rosenfield wrote.

“This is America: We need to tolerate a Catholic man saying Catholic things at a Catholic university,” she said.

LifeNews Note: Joshua Mercer writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.

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