Do not compare Harrison Butker to Colin Kaepernick

Someday Colin Kaepernick will be forgotten as the mediocre starting quarterback he was. Unfortunately, today is not that day.

Democrats are currently freaking out about Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.

Butker’s crime? Having the temerity to thank his wife for making his career possible. After congratulating the women in the audience on their “amazing accomplishment,” Butker then guessed that while many of them were looking forward to successful careers, a majority of them were also looking forward to becoming wives and mothers.

“I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother,” Butker said.

“It cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met band class back in middle school,” Butker continued choking back tears, “would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all, homemaker.”

For these words, Democrats have started petitions to get him fired, and one sports writer in San Francisco is calling the NFL hypocrites for not treating Butker like Colin Kaepernick was treated.

“After Colin Kaepernick used his platform as an NFL quarterback in 2016 to push a political/ideological agenda that offended a lot of people, the president of the United States the next year told a rally audience what NFL team owners should say to Kaepernick and his ilk,” The San Francisco Chronicle’s Scott Ostler wrote . “And so he was. The San Francisco 49ers told Kaepernick they would not pick up the team option on the final season of his contract.”

Except this is not what happened. Kaepernick “used his platform as an NFL quarterback in 2016 to push a political/ideological agenda that offended a lot of people” for months and literally no one cared. That was the problem.

It was only when Kaepernick decided to dishonor the flag by sitting during the national anthem that people became upset.

"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media at the time.

Kaepernick was perfectly free to talk about police violence before, after, or even during the game. If he had kept his statements to press conferences, Twitter, and Instagram he never would have become controversial. It was only his decision to attack the flag during the anthem that made him a household name.

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If Harrison Butker’s Catholic views expressed at a Catholic college offend you, don’t listen to them. And don’t go to a Catholic school. It is a free country.

But when we come together as a community to honor what binds us together as a nation, don’t disrupt the ceremony. Your opinions can wait until after.