Patricia Heaton （機の）カム to the 弁護 of 戦闘の準備を整えた Kanas City 長，指導者s kicker Harrison Butker in the wake of a 議論の的になる 卒業 speech he gave earlier this month.
Butker, 28, has been a 焦点の point of social マスコミ 怒らせる に引き続いて a speech he 配達するd May 11 at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, touching on 極度の慎重さを要する topics 範囲ing from abortion to Pride Month to women in the 全労働人口.
The two-time Emmy 勝利者, 66, took to Instagram Saturday 表明するing her 混乱 about the uproar to the NFL player's comments in the speech, 公式文書，認めるing that they were 井戸／弁護士席-received at the 発生地.
'I don't understand why everyone's knickers are in a 新たな展開,' Heaton said in the online clip. 'He gave a 開始／学位授与式 speech, the audience 拍手喝采する twice during the speech and gave him a standing ovation at the end.'
The Cleveland native, who appeared in the clip donning a ballcap and zip-up sweater in 前線 of a workout machine, said the audience at the 開始／学位授与式 'enjoyed what he was 説.'
Patricia Heaton, 66, （機の）カム to the 弁護 of 戦闘の準備を整えた Kanas City 長，指導者s kicker Harrison Butker, 28, in the wake of a 議論の的になる 卒業 speech he gave earlier this month?
Butker has been a 焦点の point of social マスコミ 怒らせる に引き続いて a speech he 配達するd May 11 at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, touching on 極度の慎重さを要する topics 範囲ing from abortion to Pride Month to women in the 全労働人口. Pictured in September 2023
Heaton, who played the 役割 of Debra Barone on 210 episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond, said that Butker was perfectly appropriate in 'espousing his own opinions and カトリック教徒 doctrine' in the public 演説（する）／住所.
'So what? It's his opinion - he can have one,' Heaton said. 'He's not a monster for 明言する／公表するing what he believes.
'He went after bishops much more than he went after women, or what women's choices are, or what he thinks they should be - so, I don't understand.'
Heaton, who has also been seen on shows such as Thirtysomething, 支援する to You, Carol's Second 行為／法令／行動する and The Middle, 特記する／引用するd her own 約束 in 誓約（する）ing his support for the field goal kicker.
'I am a カトリック教徒 woman, who worked through my kids' childhood and I believe God opened those doors for me,' Heaton said. 'Thankfully, it was a schedule that 許すd me to also be a 十分な-time mom, 基本的に.
'I find nothing 不快な／攻撃 about what he said, even though my life is very different and he might even look at my life and say that's not the way it should be - that's okay - that's his opinion.'
Heaton said said she 設立する it a curiosity why people took 罪／違反 to the 発言／述べるs made by Butker, who is a チーム仲間 of Taylor Swift's beau Travis Kelce.
'If you have made choices in your life and you feel those are the 権利 choices and you're comfortable and they're working out for you and your family, 広大な／多数の／重要な,' Heaton said. 'And if they're different from his, that's 広大な／多数の／重要な.'
The two-time Emmy 勝利者 took to Instagram Saturday 表明するing her 混乱 about the uproar to the NFL player's comments in the speech?
The Cleveland native appeared in the clip donning a ballcap and zip-up sweater in 前線 of a workout machine?
Heaton said said she 設立する it a curiosity why people took 罪／違反 to the 発言／述べるs made by Butker, who is a チーム仲間 of Taylor Swift's beau Travis Kelce?
She said in the clip,?'If you have made choices in your life and you feel those are the 権利 choices and you're comfortable and they're working out for you and your family, 広大な／多数の／重要な and if they're different from his, that's 広大な／多数の／重要な'
She wrapped up in advising her 信奉者s to live their own lives with the values they 持つ／拘留する dear, and not fret about what others might think.
'You do you,' Heaton said. 'He'll do him and his family. Relax, everybody.'
In his speech, the placekicker called Pride Month emblematic of 'the deadly sins,' and said 同時代の 'degenerate cultural values' encompass 問題／発行するs 含むing abortion, in vitro fertilization and surrogacy.
Butker, whose mother is physicist Elizabeth Keller Butker, said that 女性（の）s in the 卒業生（する）ing class should understand that the 'most important 肩書を与える' they can 持つ／拘留する is that of the 'homemaker.'
He said, 'Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would 投機・賭ける to guess that the 大多数 of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.'
の中で the 著名な 指名するs to 非難する Butker's commentary 含むd singer Maren Morris, rapper Flavor Flav and writer-行動主義者 Maria Shriver.
Celebrities who （機の）カム to the 弁護 of Butker まっただ中に the uproar 含むd Whoopi Goldberg and 法案 Maher.
'The same way we want 尊敬（する）・点 when Colin Kaepernick takes a 膝, we want to give 尊敬（する）・点 to people whose ideas are different from ours,' Goldberg said on The 見解（をとる）.
