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I wanted to wait until most of the furor had died down before commenting on the Harrison Butker thing. Given the response from the left you'd think he'd sacrificed a baby on a makeshift altar. Oh, I forgot, they'd probably be into that.
It's not exactly an epiphany that a Catholic, giving a Catholic speech, at a Catholic college, is a non event. But to the Bolshie hive it was an assault on all that is sacred in their twisted cosmology. How dare he expound on his own views?! What gives him the sheer cheek to approve of marriage and motherhood?! The insolent audacity of the man!
Though, one good development came out of this. It exposed, or rather reminded us, of the last acceptable bigotry: Hatred of Roman Catholicism. Yup, the poodle people don't like us one bit.
In the old days you could get some of the lads together and bash your way to uneasy tolerance, like in the cool fight scenes in 'Gangs of New York.' Priest Fallon, call your office. However, modern papist haters are not so blatant. Pity. These days the legions of female pundits and their soy boy little brothers clutch their pearls in rampant indignation at the very mention of any moral code to the right of Jack the Ripper.
We endure the trendy calumnies of leftist charges of "phobias" and their shocked horror at the assortment of normal behaviors they classify as social pathologies.
What they have correctly learned is that we are the traditional core of the West and, since they hate the West, we are a primary target. Sadly, the head of our Church aids and abets them. Kind of like having Hitler as US Army Chief of Staff in 1943.
Many of these Catholic haters are lapsed Catholics as well, people who couldn't cut the theological mustard and thus decided to drop God and start worshipping the state and themselves in that order.
In fairness, we haven't done our own image any good with the priest scandals of the last 30 years. It has prompted, they were waiting for it with dripping saliva, the popular culture to portray every priest as a gay pederast prowling for altar boys while going full reactionary from the pulpit. There is, we must admit, some truth to that. It would help if we got rid of the silly medieval notion of priestly celibacy. But, that's for another article.
So, back to Butker. This whole thing actually looks like it might rebound in his favor and to the advantage of the Church. He's getting lots of support from teammates, fellow NFL players, and the KC front office. His jerseys are selling like crazy, my wife bought one, and it created a Newtonian Third Law backlash that the left cannot be happy about. Ergo, it was a pretty smart strategic move for Harrison Butker. And this from a kicker? God does work in mysterious ways.
A veteran of service with NATO forces, US Army Intelligence, and the First Infantry Division, David Kamioner is a cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland’s European Division and spent over thirty years as a political consultant, academic, writer, and corporate PR director. He hails from New York City and grew up in South Florida.
He served with the American Red Cross as part of the relief effort for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. For several years he ran homeless shelters, most recently homeless shelters for US military veterans. He currently works in veterans affairs.
