Kansas City Chiefs social media accounts continue to get trolled by women sports fans following the team's kicker Harrison Butker's speech, deemed by many as homophobic and misogynist.
However, his teammate Patrick Mahomes would not throw him out of the bus.
For the star quarterback, what Butker said in his controversial speech boils down to the "differences" humans possess and that it only seemed big on social media.
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"I've known Harrison for seven years. I judge him by the character he shows every single day," Mahomes said after one of the team's voluntary practices.
"We're not always going to agree, and there are certain things he said that I don't necessarily agree with. But I know the person he is and he's doing what he can to lead people in the right direction."
Mahomes, who has won three Super Bowls with Butker, made the comments in the same week his clip for a gala meant to honor women in sports was released.
In the video, he celebrated female sports personalities for elevating their industry to a new level and era and that they deserve the attention they are getting now.
Harrison Butker's speech was the talk of the town last week for saying that Pride Month is a sin and women's greatest achievement is to become a homemaker.
He delivered the speech as a guest speaker at Benedictine College's graduation rites. Many female aspirants attended the ceremony.
"I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolic lies told to you," said Butker, a physicist.
"Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother."
Founding sisters of Benedictine College hits at Harrison Butker
The sisters of Benedictine College, who did not become homemakers but instead became agents of positive change, did not find Butker's speech amusing.
They called his words a harbinger of division and did not agree that women should become wives and mothers first and foremost.
"Instead of promoting unity in our church, our nation, and the world, his comments seem to have fostered division," the sisters' statement reads on their website's home page.
"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 gifts in leadership, scholarship, and their careers."
Right now, it seems the Chiefs' main response to the controversy is to let it die a natural death despite calls for them to release a statement by supporters.
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