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NFL distances itself from player's controversial speech on women, LGBTQ issues

The NFL has distanced itself from a commencement speech by Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker in which he urged women to prioritize motherhood over careers, attacked President Joe Biden for supporting abortion rights, and criticized “dangerous gender ideologies.” Jonathan Beane, a senior vice president and the National Football League’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, said Butker’s views “are not those of the NFL as an organiz…