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Jason Kelce gave another statement to stop people from criticising him and calling him a ‘hypocrite’.
that he doesn’t consider his wife — a head varsity high school field hockey coach and autism awareness advocate — to be a “homemaker.”
“She has an occupation, as do I, and we keep our house the best we can,” he wrote. “Our marriage is a partnership, we are equals who are figuring it out on the daily. The only expectation is that we love each other, support one another, and are committed to our family, that comes first.”
He then pointed out that they are both responsible for the tidiness of their home and cleaning up after their three young daughters.
“If being a homemaker, works for some, and that’s what they want, then hell yea, that’s awesome, more power to you,” he added. “I want to be clear, I’m not downplaying that at all, but that is not our family dynamic.”Butker, who gave this year’s commencement address at Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts college in Kansas, said being a homemaker is, for women, “one of the most important titles of all.” The kicker also took aim at LGBTQ+ people, calling Pride a “deadly sin” and decrying “dangerous gender ideologies,” and the “tyranny of diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Both Kelce brothers distanced themselves from Butker’s views, though they expressed connecting with the kicker’s love for his family.
“Make no mistake about it, a lot of the things he said in his commencement speech are not things that I align myself with. But he’s giving a commencement speech at a Catholic university and, shocker, it ended up being a very religious and Catholic speech,” Jason Kelce said.
He added that he’d feel as though he “failed as a dad” if his daughters accepted a commencement speaker telling them that they can only be homemakers.
The retired Eagles player said that Kylie Kelce was “a little bit frustrated” by Butker’s speech, before joking that he responded by telling his wife: “You’re going to need to go back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich, I’m listening to the game right now.”