While telling young women who just graduated with a college degree that they are going to enjoy being a wife and mother more, may be poor timing – I can’t disagree with Harrison Butker.
I loved my time at Medtronic, using my undergraduate degree to bring physical healing to many. I would be honored to work there again. It is a wonderful cooperation dedicated to the health of both patients and employees alike. My husband, who I met there, is still helping people around the world through Medtronic’s medical therapies.
However, no amount of bringing physical healing to people can compare with the joy of seeing babies grow into competent, God-fearing adults who make their world better.
On the other hand, I have several Christian friends who have been called by God to not get married and not have any children of their own. But God gives them others’ children to guide and lead in both Christianity and adulting here in America. So my friends use their college degrees to support themselves while helping out others. They are almost like single moms, which is something I can’t even imagine being – I’ve experienced short spurts of that when my husband would travel for work. That was hard!!
So, while I agree with kicker Butker in his broad principles, again, it may have been poor timing for that particular line.
On the other hand, I thoroughly support him in his other comments on American culture, as evidenced by the many blogs I have written myself on those subjects.
I’m guessing Butker knew before giving this speech that he may be putting his job on the line with those words. I am proud of him for speaking the truth anyway.
I recommend that you watch the recording rather than just read the transcript. You can see his humility, which is lost if you just read the words.
Thank you, Harrison Butker, for kicking us out of complacency.
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