- Butker wore a tie in Washington DC last June during the championship celebration
- The kicker says he has no plans to do anything similar at this year’s event
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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker revealed why he wore a tie with a pro-life Latin phrase written on it during the Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration at the White House last year.
Butker can be seen wearing the tie directly behind President Joe Biden. Butker’s pro-life stance is in direct opposition to the Biden administration’s pro-choice policies.
The topic of a nationwide ban on abortion in the United States has intensified over the past two years, since a heavily Republican Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, which legalized abortion in the United States. United.
Butker’s protest took place last June, as the Chiefs were celebrating their Super Bowl victory last year.
The date for another championship celebration for Kansas City at the White House in honor of its victory over the San Francisco 49ers is planned for late spring, but has not been announced.
Butker can be seen over Biden’s left shoulder wearing a pro-life tie with his gray suit jacket
The tie reads “Vulnerari Praesidio,” a Latin phrase about protecting the most vulnerable.
Butker said he did not intend to carry out another silent protest against the Biden administration’s pro-choice stance, but “a lot of thought” went into last year’s message.
“I thought, ‘Wow, this is an amazing place.’ Unfortunately, there are some laws that are being passed that I don’t think human life is valued and one of those laws is allowing abortion to be legal in this country,” Butker said Tuesday.
“So to have a tie that, in Latin, I thought, would draw attention to the unborn child, because I’m trying to learn more Latin, by going to Latin mass, I chose” Vulnerari Praesidio,” which aims to protect the most vulnerable,” Butker added. .
“Unborn children are, for me, the greatest victims of our society. They don’t have voices, they don’t necessarily look like humans, they’re not very big, they can’t fight for themselves,” Butker continued.
Butker has been Chief since 2017 and has been their starting kicker for all three Super Bowls
Butker and his wife, Isabelle Butker, have been open about the fact that the couple had three miscarriages together, but continued to try for more children.
“There’s not a lot of people fighting for them and I just think it’s a great atrocity that’s happening in this country with the charade of the unborn,” Butker added.
“And I felt there was no better place to send this message to the masses and represent the unborn in a place like the White House, where unfortunately their voices are not heard,” concluded Butker.
Harrison and Isabelle married in 2018 and have two children.
