Chiefs president reveals his stance on Harrison Butker's controversial 'homemaker' speech

The president of the Kansas City Chiefs offered his thoughts connected a arguable code fixed by his kicker Harrison Butker astatine a commencement ceremonial this past Spring.

In the code astatine Benedictine College, Butker made a bid of polarizing remarks astir President Joe Biden, the LGBTQ+ community, and termination among different topics.

Speaking to Variety, Chiefs president Mark Donovan said that he's had 'a batch of bully conversations with Harrison' aft the speech. He added that his extremity is to respect everyone careless of their beliefs. 

'You've got to deliberation of it from the position of a squad and a locker room. In our locker room, similar immoderate family, determination are radical with antithetic opinions,' helium says. 'And 1 of the things we preach is respect. 

'So I respect Harrison's views. I don't needfully hold with him. He has to respect that I don't needfully hold with him and we've got to pass that. And that was 1 of the things we talked astir and helium was precise supportive of that.'

Donovan continued, 'It is utilized successful astir each concern that we woody with successful a affirmative way. Make a determination based connected respect. We've had issues successful the past successful the locker country with guys — not to get political, but to get political, determination are guys with a Black Lives Matter chapeau and a Make America Great Again chapeau successful the locker adjacent to him. 

'You tin judge those things, which whitethorn beryllium antithetic successful immoderate ways, but you're going to play unneurotic and you're going to respect each other.'

Shortly aft the code was made, NFL elder vice president and main diverseness and inclusion serviceman Jonathan Beane said, 'His views are not those of the NFL arsenic an organization. The NFL is steadfast successful our committedness to inclusion, which lone makes our league stronger.'

Butker precocious opened up astir his remarks, specifically saying that a woman's 'most important title' should beryllium a 'home maker' portion speaking to Fox News. 

'I was trying to talk beingness for truthful galore women that person dedicated their beingness to being the homemaker, being the 1 that raises the children, and it's a beauteous role, but it's not a relation that should beryllium diminished,' helium said during the Oct. 10 interview.

'There's thing shameful if you are a pistillate and you privation to walk clip with your household and rise your children, truthful it's not putting down anyone who possibly wants to spell get a large acquisition and person a career.'

He continued, 'But it's much talking astir however beauteous it is for women to possibly conscionable measurement speech and prioritize their household and walk clip with their children and rise their family. And that's what I was conscionable trying to talk emotion about.'