Katy Perry rewrites Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech for Pride Month

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Harrison Butker has yet again garnered attention! All thanks to his graduation speech. Now music sensation, Katy Perry has re-written Butker’s controversial speech for Pride Month.

On the first day of Pride Month, Katy Perry took to her social media account and shared a more celebratory version of Harrison Butker’s controversial graduation speech.

Katy Perry rewrites Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech

The 39-year-old singer wrote on X, "Fixed this for my girls, my graduates, and my gays you can do anything, congratulations and happy pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🧡."

She also released a video of Butker, 28, giving a speech that had been edited. The original speech had been altered into a completely different speech. The original speech was given at Benedictine University in Kansas on May 11.

While in the original speech the Kansas City Chiefs kicker endorsed homemaking and motherhood as a woman's major "vocation" in life, in the edited speech he encourages women to "lead successful careers in the world".

"I say all of this to you because I have seen it firsthand, how much happier someone can be supporting women and not saying that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world,” Butker said in Perry’s version.

In his original speech, Butker addressed “the ladies present,” instead of the “women", congratulating them for their “amazing accomplishment” while claiming that they have had “the most diabolical lies told to [them]” about their place in society.

Butker's speech was further modified in Perry's video so that it ended with the following statement: "People of all ages are embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion as society shifts. With that, I'd want to wish everyone a happy Pride Month and congrats on your class of 2024!"

In his original address, Butker railed against women in the workforce, LGBTQIA+ pride, abortion access and the use of IVF and surrogacy as family planning methods.

"Benedictine has gone from just another liberal arts school with nothing to set it apart to a thriving beacon of light,” Butker said in his speech.

"I’m certain the reporters at the AP could not have imagined that their attempt to rebuke and embarrass places and people like those here at Benedictine wouldn’t be met with anger, but instead met with excitement and pride, not the deadly sin sort of pride that has an entire month dedicated to it, but the true God-centered pride that is cooperating with the Holy Ghost to glorify him.”

Harrison Butker says he has no regrets about commencement speech

In his first public comments since a divisive commencement speech that sparked accusations of sexism and homophobia, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker said he has no regrets about expressing his views.

Butker said at a gala in Nashville, "If it wasn’t clear that the timeless Catholic values are hated by many, it is now. Over the past few days, my beliefs or what people think I believe have been the focus of countless discussions around the globe.”

“The more I’ve talked about what I value most, which is my Catholic faith, the more polarizing I have become. It’s a decision I’ve consciously made, and one I do not regret at all," he said.