Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) accused Kansas City of doxxing Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker and promised to hold the city accountable in a statement Thursday.
“My office is demanding accountability after @KansasCity doxxed @buttkicker7 last night for daring to express his religious beliefs,” Bailey wrote on social media platform X, linking to the city government’s official account and Butker’s account.
“I will enforce the Missouri Human Rights Act to ensure that Missourians are not targeted for their free exercise of religion,” he added. “Stay tuned.”
Bailey’s statement came in response to a now-deleted post from the Kansas City government account Wednesday night that said, “Just a reminder that Harrison Butker lives in the city of Lee’s Summit.”
Within two hours, the Kansas City account took down the post. The account also released a subsequent statementsaying: “We [apologize] to our previous tweet. It was shared by mistake.”
The city’s mayor, Quinton Lucas, issued his own public statement, calling the original post “clearly inappropriate for a public account.”
“The city has rightly apologized for the error, will review account access and ensure nothing similar is shared in the future on public channels,” he added.
The post followed a wave of backlash to a commencement speech Butker gave at a Catholic liberal arts college on Saturday, where he attacked President Biden on a myriad of issues — including how he confronts supporting abortion access while publicly identifying himself. as a devout Catholic – and railed against “bad leaders who do not stay in their ways”.
“Bad policies and weak leadership have had a negative impact on major life issues. Things like abortion, [in vitro fertilization]Surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as growing support for degenerate cultural values and media all stem from the spread of disorder,” Butker said.
“Our own nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally,” he continued.
Biden is only the country’s second Catholic president in history and often attends Saturday night Mass with his family, near his home in Wilmington, Del., or in Washington, D.C.
At times, however, Biden has had to balance the Catholic Church’s positions on issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights with the political realities of being a Democratic president.
Biden’s views on abortion have evolved over the 50 years he has been in the public eye, but he has consistently supported the right to abortion access since becoming president. The president said that as a practicing Catholic, he is “not a big fan of abortion” but thinks the Roe v. Wade “got it right.”
Butker’s remarks were an apparent reference to when Biden gestured the sign of the cross last month during a demonstration against abortion restrictions.
“He has been so vocal in his support of the murder of innocent babies that, I’m sure, to a lot of people, it seems like you can be both Catholic and pro-choice,” Butker added. “He is not alone. From the man behind COVID lockdowns to the people pushing dangerous gender ideologies on America’s youth, they all have one clear thing in common: they are Catholic. This is an important reminder that being Catholic alone is not enough.”
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