Chiefs kicker arrives at White House in pro-life merch
Briana Oser
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Harrison Butker, the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, appeared at the White House on Monday wearing pro-life merchandise.
Butker sported a tie that read “PROTECT THE VULNERABLE” in Latin beside a gold pin of an aborted 10-week-old baby’s feet.
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This is a major pro-family move for sports considering the amount of LGBT propaganda being pushed by teams such as the MLB’s Los Angeles Dodgers and all the cowardly responses from Christian athletes.
In a culture where America’s manliest pastime is feminized, examples of masculinity, such as Butker are especially necessary. When a man is strong, talented, educated, and supportive of traditional values, he is authentically masculine. Young men need this display of consistency, rather than muscly men with deep voices running around in dresses.
Butker always has advocated traditional family values. In his commencement address at his alma mater, the Georgia Institute of Technology, he stated that his football achievements mean nothing to him when weighed against the joy his family has brought to his life: “None of these accomplishments mean anything compared to the happiness I have found in my marriage and in starting a family.” He encouraged graduates to marry and not to prioritize worldly success and money.
Most pro-choice men fall into two categories: those who fervently support abortion, often gay outspoken feminists or “trans men,” and those who claim that abortion is a “woman’s issue” and that they have no authority in a woman’s decision to abort her child. This stance is a pro-choicer’s ideal response to the famous pro-abortion mantra “no uterus, no opinion.”
The former is dangerous, but the latter category is far more dangerous because of its popularity and passive nature. It is easy for men to be pro-choice. If the choice to kill her child is just the mother’s, then men are free from both the moral weight of the decision and the responsibilities of having a child.
The man does not have to be a leader or a protector. He gets to forfeit his fatherhood.
Butker stands up against the popular narrative that men do not have a say in the abortion issue. Men like Butker have every right to say that because abortion is the murder of innocent human life, it is an objective and universal evil.
He instructs young sports fans to celebrate the family. Even in the glamorous world of sports, these priorities must be considered.
Butker’s public, pro-life appearance was a direct attack on frail masculinity. To dismiss abortion as a “woman’s issue” is cowardice. To be a pro-choice man is to be a wimp.
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Briana Oser is a summer 2023 Washington Examiner fellow.