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Kansas City officials will not apologize to Harrison Butker for a viral tweet from a city account.

A resolution to issue a formal apology to the Chiefs kicker was voted down by the Kansas City Council Thursday afternoon.

The tweet in question read, “Just a reminder that Harrison Butker lives in the City of Lee’s Summit.” It appeared for a few minutes on the city’s official X account, formerly Twitter, four days after Butker’s viral graduation address at Benedictine College in Atchinson, Kansas.

The resolution was sponsored by Councilman Nathan Willett, who wrote the city’s tweet mocked Butker on the basis of his religious beliefs. Butker is a conservative Catholic, and Benedictine College is a private Catholic college.

The failed resolution also thanked Butker “for his many contributions to the greater Kansas City community both on and off the field.”

“Mr. Butker did not ask the city of Kansas City to weigh in on this issue,” Willett said.

An apology tweet was issued from the same X account that day. Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas also offered an apology on his personal X account.

But several council members said Butker owed the city an apology, instead of the other way around.

“The comments that Mr. Butker made towards women — young women — when I hear an apology for that, then I will vote to apologize to him,” said Councilman Kevin O’Neill, an alumnus of Benedictine College.

Butker has been widely criticized for the content of his 20-minute speech, in which he said “homemaker” is one of a woman’s most important titles. Butker also criticized President Joe Biden for his stance on abortion and made inflammatory comments about the LGBTQ+ community, calling Pride Month an example of the “deadly sins.”

Discourse around the tweet harmed city employees, many of whom were doxxed online, said Councilman Eric Bunch. Twitter users found and shared the addresses of several staffers, as well as photos of their homes.

Employees of the city communications department, as well as of city hall at large, were affected, council members said.