News in: Whoopi Goldberg on Harrison Butker remarks: ‘These are his beliefs and he’s welcome to them’

“These are his beliefs and he’s welcome to them,” Goldberg said during an episode of “The View” on Thursday. “I don’t have to believe them. Right? I don’t have to accept them.”“The ladies that were sitting in that audience do not have to accept them the same way,” she said. “We want respect when Colin Kaepernick takes a knee, right? We want to give respect to people whose ideas are different from ours.”“Colin Kaepernick was standing up for the rights of many and saying in a social justice moment, ‘This is a reminder that we’re not there yet,’” Haines said. “What this man is doing is not just a devout Catholic, this is someone who’s practicing something called the traditional Latin Mass, which is a divergent from the majority of Catholics. It’s being compared to being quote, ‘an extremist,’ like some religions in the Middle East and Asia. So, this is a very extreme religion.”