Missouri Lawyer Common Andrew Bailey stated Thursday that his workplace is “demanding accountability” after the graduation speech he gave Kansas Metropolis Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker over the weekend on social media.
“My workplace is demanding accountability after @KansasCity doxed @buttkicker7 final evening,” Bailey posted on X. Keep tuned.”
The official Kansas Metropolis X account, which stated the town Butker lives in, later deleted the put up and issued an apology: “We apologize. [sic] For our earlier tweet. Shared by mistake.”
Kansas Metropolis Mayor Quinton Lucas acknowledged the put up was “clearly inappropriate.”
“A message arrived this night from Metropolis Public Account,” he wrote. “The message was clearly inappropriate for a public account. The Metropolis has rightly apologized for the error, will overview entry to the account and guarantee it’s not shared by way of public channels sooner or later.”
A message appeared this night from the Metropolis Public Account.
The message was clearly inappropriate for a public account Citi duly apologized for the error, will overview account entry and can guarantee nothing is shared from public channels sooner or later.
— Mayor Q (@Quinton Lucaskesy) May 16, 2024
Butker ripped President Joe Biden and invoked variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI) ideas throughout a graduation speech at a Catholic liberal arts faculty on Saturday.
The three-time Tremendous Bowl champion recommended that Biden, who like Butler is Catholic, has betrayed his religion by supporting abortion entry.
“Unhealthy insurance policies and poor management have negatively impacted main life points,” Butker stated in the course of the commencement ceremony at Benedictine Faculty in Atchison, Kansas.
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“Points resembling abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, in addition to rising help for degenerate cultural values within the media, all stem from the prevalence of the dysfunction,” Butker stated.
The place kicker then referenced Biden, with out mentioning him by identify, describing how the president made the signal of the cross throughout a pro-abortion speech by a fellow Democrat in Florida final month.
“Our nation is led by a person who brazenly and proudly proclaims his Catholic religion, however on the similar time is delusional sufficient to make the signal of the cross at pro-abortion rallies,” Butker stated.
“He is been so vocal in his help for the killing of harmless kids that I am certain to many, it looks like you will be each Catholic and choosy,” he added.
Biden “is not alone,” Butker went on.
“From the folks behind the Covid lockdown, to the folks pushing harmful gender ideologies amongst America’s youth, all of them have one obvious factor in frequent – they’re Catholics,” Butker stated. “It is an necessary reminder that being Catholic alone will not lower it.”
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.
