05-19-2024, 01:10 PM
(05-19-2024, 12:39 PM)StoneTheCrow Wrote: Transcript of Butker’s speech. Looks like some people may need to check it out:
https://www.ncregister.com/news/harrison-butker-speech-at-benedictine?amp
Hardly the “you chicks need to stay in the kitchen” it was made out to be.
Don’t make me defend a Chief, please/thanks.
Telling women graduating from college the only thing they are thinking of is being a wife and mother is ridiculous. Telling them they won't be fulfilled until the give birth is misogynistic. Saying that at a college founded by a group of educated, unmarried, childless women who spent their lives devoted to service and God is tone deaf
Why do men think they know better than women what is best for them? These are smart young women, They don't need Harrison Bukner telling them to stay at home and make babies.
Why is it we never see speeches by men telling other men how to be fulfilled and happy by serving their wives?
The response by the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St Scholastica, the founding order of Benedictine College
Quote:“As a founding institution and sponsor of Benedictine College, the sisters of Mount St. Scholastica find it necessary to respond to the controversial remarks of Harrison Butker as commencement speaker. “The Sisters of Mt. Scholastica do not believe that Harrison Butker’s comments in his 2024 Benedictine College commencement address represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college that our founders envisioned and in which we have been so invested. “Instead of promoting unity in our church, our nation and the world, his comments seem to have fostered division. One of our concerns was the assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman. We sisters have dedicated our lives to God and God’s people, including the many women whom we have taught and influenced during the past 160 years. These women have made a tremendous difference in the world in their roles as wives and mothers, and through their God-given talents in leadership, scholarship and their careers. “Our community has taught young women and men not just how to be ‘homemakers’ in a limited sense, but rather how to make a Gospel-centered, compassionate home within themselves where they can welcome others as Christ, empowering them to be the best versions of themselves. “We reject a narrow definition of what it means to be Catholic. We are faithful members of the Catholic Church who embrace and promote the values of the Gospel, St. Benedict, and Vatican II and the teachings of Pope Francis. “We want to be known as an inclusive, welcoming community, embracing Benedictine values that have endured for more than 1500 years and have spread through every continent and nation. We believe those values are the core of Benedictine College.”
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