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Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker slams ‘crazy’ drag queen show at Olympics opening ceremony: ‘God is not mocked’.
A number of people took to social media to proclaim their offense to this display, with Butker one of them.
He tweeted out a video of the performance, quoting a verse from the Bible: Galatians 6:7-8 The phrases ‘disgusting’ and ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ were trending on Twitter the morning after the ceremony took place, with the performance remaining a topic of discussion.
Butker has been at the center of controversy earlier this summer after a commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas that some Butker congratulated the women receiving degrees and said most of them were probably more excited about getting married and having children. He also said some Catholic leaders were ‘pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America.’ stance on abortion.
The controversial speech has attracted fierce backlash and, a day after his address, a petition was set up to have the Chiefs kicker removed from the team’s roster ahead of the 2024 NFL season.
Butker remains on the Chiefs roster and made a trip to The White House to celebrate his team’s Super Bowl victory.