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NFL stars Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce are defending Travis’ teammate Harrison Butker after the Kansas City Chiefs kicker sparked outrage for encouraging women university grads to be “homemakers” during a commencement speech. During a Friday episode of their New Heights podcast, the Kelce brothers said that they don’t agree with Butker’s views, but they don’t want to judge him for his religious beliefs. Butker is Catholic and gave his commencement speech at Benedictine College, a Catholic university.

Travis said that he’s known Butker for more than seven years and finds him to be a “great person and a great teammate.” “I cherish him as a teammate,” Travis said. “He’s treated family and family that I’ve introduced to him with nothing but respect and kindness.



And that’s how he treats everyone.” Story continues below advertisement 2:13 Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech draws mixed reaction But that doesn’t mean the Chiefs tight-end agrees with his controversial teammate’s opinions. “When it comes down to his views and what he said at Saint Benedict’s commencement speech, those are his.

I can’t say I agree with the majority of it, or just about any of it outside of just him loving his family and his kids. And I don’t think that I should judge him by his views, especially his religious views, of how to go about life, that’s just not who I am,” Travis said. Butker’s address touched on a range of issues taken up .

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