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Patricia Heaton Defends Harrison Butker: ‘Everybody Just Calm Down’


Patricia Heaton defends Harrison Butker’s comments about women in his controversial Benedictine College graduation speech, saying people need to ‘calm down’

(Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images) Patricia Heaton came to the defense of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker following his controversial graduation speech at Benedictine College earlier this month. Posted with the caption, “Everybody just calm down,” Heaton shared a video via Instagram on Saturday, May 18, wherein she defends comments Butker, 28, made in his speech about the role of women in society as “homemakers,” encouraging female graduates to give up their careers to become stay-at-home mothers. While Heaton came to Butker’s defense as a Catholic woman, the nuns of Benedictine College couldn’t say the same and have since condemned the Super Bowl champion’s commencement address.

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