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The NFL Draft for 2010 occurred this weekend. In the first round, University of Florida’s Tim Tebow was drafted by the Denver Bronco’s. In the weeks leading up to the draft, much had been written about Tebow’s football skills, and equally about his faith and personal views. This after the “controversial” Mother-Son ad for Focus on Family.
So, the nice guy ends up the target of some attacks, for whatever reasons:
A Boston sports-radio host yesterday likened former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow’s NFL draft party to a “Nazi rally,” a remark one media observer called an “amazing double standard.”
Fred “Toucher” Toettcher said yesterday on 98.5 The Sports Hub, “It looked like some kind of Nazi rally. . . . So lily-white is what I’m trying to say. Yeah, Stepford Wives.”
for the full Boston Herald article: http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100424host_hurls_tebow_nazi_remark_critics_slam_hub_sports_radios_double_standard/srvc=home&position=4
Just weeks after the “abortion” controversy that swirled around Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad for Focus On Family, the pro-life, pro-family organization is once again the “focus” of the Women’s Media team:
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has removed an FOTF banner ad from one of its websites this week. The governing body of college sports explains that it came to the decision after receiving complaints, including from some of its members, that FOTF’s views on same-sex relationships are in conflict with the NCAA’s policy on sexual orientation.
But FOTF says there is no reason to pull the ad, which it describes as “benign” and non-political.
The ad pictures a dad holding his young son with the caption: “All I want for my son is for him to grow up knowing how to do the right thing.” It includes the address to the FOTF’s website and the title, “Celebrate Family. Celebrate Life.”
“Have we really become a society where it’s considered distasteful and controversial for a dad to hope the best for his son?” asked Gary Schneeberger, vice president of ministry communications at Focus on the Family, according to Citizenlink.com. “If so, we have a lot of soul-searching to do as a nation.”
for full article: http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100225/ncaa-removes-focus-on-the-family-ad-from-site/index.html
I guess the groups like NOW were afraid of those words at the end:
FOCUS on FAMILY !!!!
Tebow mother bears a message of love
By Joe Fitzgerald (Boston Herald)
Even before Pam Tebow gets to tell her story in a 30-second spot during tomorrow’s Super Bowl, she’s become a lightning rod, incurring the wrath of pro-abortion zealots.
And that’s exactly how to describe them, though they’d rather be known as pro-choice because it sounds so much more reasonable. But make no mistake, the only choice this crowd will tolerate is its own.
Tebow, however, wants to share a story of how she was led by faith to continue a pregnancy against the advice of doctors who feared the baby she was carrying might have been damaged by medicine she had ingested. Though they implored her to terminate that pregnancy, she chose life.
Tim Tebow, the magnificent quarterback at the University of Florida, was the baby she delivered 23 years ago.
Many would see that as a beautiful story, but not Erin Matson, speaking for the National Organization of Women, who contemptuously dismisses it as “hate masquerading as love.”
Ms. Matson would seem to qualify as an authority on hatred, but it’s obvious she’s got a lot to learn about love, and there’s a mom in this city who could teach her well.
She and her husband, both active in Boston schools, will be watching tomorrow’s game, not to root for the Colts or Saints, but to silently applaud Pam Tebow.
Their son, a handsome, gifted college freshman, was born 19 years ago.
“I was in my fifth month when tests had my doctor concerned I might be carrying a Down’s syndrome child,” she recalled. “So he sent me to a place on Longwood Avenue for more ultrasound testing.
“The specialist wanted to proceed with an amniocentesis, but I told her no, that I was afraid it might cause a miscarriage. She immediately began to challenge me: ‘Do you think you have this right, knowing there might be a defect?’ I said, ‘Yes, I absolutely do have the right to bear and love this child!’ ”
Now 54, she is still moved deeply when she remembers the day her son arrived.
“When I heard the doctor say, ‘He’s fine,’ I cried for two hours.
“So I love the fact Pam Tebow’s story is getting out because it’s our story, too. I wish I could have seen it back then. It would have been so encouraging, with so many trying to tell me I was doing the wrong thing.
“I just hope someone gets that kind of encouragement tomorrow.”
NOTE: A pop culture professor at Syracuse University has said that Focus On Family could pull their ad right now, save their money, and have had the same impact, due to the manner that the group and the Tebows have been attacked by NOW and others. The CEO of Focus on Family announced yesterday that they have purchased FOUR spots for pre-game ads as well. It is estimated by marketing strategists that Fcus on Family has recived the equivalent of $10 million dollars worth of advertising thanks to NOW, Gloria Allred, and others.
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