Katy Perry roared back at a guy and she liked it.
To kick off LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the singer shared a heavily edited version of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech.
“Fixed this for my girls, my graduates, and my gays — you can do anything,” Perry, 39, wrote on Instagram June 1. “Congratulations and happy pride.”
Speaking on camera at Kansas’ Benedictine College May 11, Butker said most female graduates would be “most excited” about marriage and motherhood and also spoke out against topics such as abortion and IVF. The edited speech posted by the singer, who rose to fame after the release of her 2008 debut single “I Kissed a Girl,” splices some of the athlete’s words together to make it sound as though he praises the women over their future careers, promotes “diversity, equity and inclusion” and wishes people a happy Pride Month.
E! News has reached out to Butker’s rep for comment on Perry’s post and has not head back.
The NFL player had stirred mixed reactions with his speech. On May 24, he broke his silence about the controversy while defending his Catholic faith.
“Over the past few days, my beliefs or what people think I believe have been the focus of countless discussions around the globe,” Butker said in a speech at the Courage Under Fire Gala in Nashville, presented by the Regina Caeli Academy, a homeschool hybrid academy for Catholic families. “At the outset, many people expressed a shocking level of hate. But as the days went on, even those who disagreed with my viewpoints shared their support for my freedom of religion.”
The 28-year-old continued, “In my seven years in the NFL, I’ve become familiar with the positive and negative comments, but the majority of them revolve around my performance on the field. But as to be expected, 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.”
Find out what stars have said about Butker’s speech…
Robin Alam / ISI Photos / Getty Images / JC Olivera/WireImageKaty Perry
The singer shared a heavily edited version of Butker’s controversial commencement speech that splices several of his words together to make it appear as though he praises the female graduates over their future careers, promotes “diversity, equity and inclusion” and wishes people a happy Pride Month.
“Fixed this for my girls, my graduates, and my gays — you can do anything,” Perry, 39, wrote on Instagram June 1. “Congratulations and happy pride.”
Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty ImagesHoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager
“Well, I’m where I am today because I have a husband who leans into his vocation, which is being an equal partner,” Jenna—who shares daughters Mila, 11, and Poppy, 8, and son Hal, 4, with husband Henry Hager—said on TODAY. “And I tell him that all the time.”
Added co-anchor Hoda, who’s mom to daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5: “Don’t speak for us. Stop speaking for women out there.”
Dustin Satloff/Getty ImagesTravis Kelce
“I cherish him as a teammate,” the Kansas City Chiefs tight end said on the May 24 episode of the New Heights podcast. “He’s treated family and family that I’ve introduced to him with nothing but respect and kindness. And that’s how he treats everyone.”
“When it comes down to his views and what he said at Saint Benedict’s commencement speech, those are his,” he continued. “I can’t say I agree with the majority of it or just about any of it outside of just him loving his family and his kids. And I don’t think that I should judge him by his views, especially his religious views, of how to go about life, that’s just not who I am.”
