I’m firmly pro-choice, and I think this pitting is ridiculous.
The pro-life viewpoint is a quite reasonable one, albeit one I disagree with. And there’s absolutely no reason that someone who sincerely holds a viewpoint and has access to a public forum in which to promote it should not do so.
And Condescending robot, you’re being unproductively hyperbolic.
No one who truly understood the philosophical reasons to support abortion rights could ever believe in the latter statement. If you’re one of those fashionable nihilists who is pro-choice because you want to drop trendy phrases about “crotchspawn” and population control, or if you think that moral values just flit in on the wind and must be claimed by whoever they land on and don’t carry any truth values, then you’re not doing any cause you ally with any good.
Funny: Eye black is supposed to reduce glare (and for those of you who didn’t know what it was, Wiki says it’s been used for centuries! Where’ve you been? :)), and Tim Tebow writes his Bible verses in SILVER pen! Yay for the American education system!
Funnier: **dalej42 **was called out in post 12, and here we are with over 60 replies and he has yet to explain why he wouldn’t want Tim Tebow on his team when he’s apparently OK with Kurt Warner turning his franchise around. If he hasn’t closeted his Cards gear and refused to watch the Cards until Warner retires, he’s a hypocrite.
Funniest: People are ascribing beliefs to Tim Tebow that don’t have anything to do with anything Tebow has actually said, as far as I can tell. All the story says is that he’ll do an ad with a Christian group, and they *speculate *that it’ll be an anti-abortion message. I think he has the right, and maybe a good reason, to hold an anti-abortion stance, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s anti-gay or anything else.
Your post would be much more damning against the American education system if: a) he hadn’t been home schooled; and b) he hadn’t won the Heisman and all.
All I can say to that is… WOW. now I’m kind of curious what level of vitriol and condescension would be directed my way if I did NOT agree with you.
I’m pro-choice because (a) I don’t believe an embryo is a person (although I admit that that’s not a slam dunk) and (b) I think that a society in which abortion is legal is going to be better off and happier and more productive than a society in which abortion is illegal.
Home-schooled kids often play sports or participate in extra curriculars of their designated high school. He played high school football at Trinity Christian Academy (tight end and linebacker) then switched to Nease High School so he could play QB.
And this would excuse him for aligning with them? If anything, that damns him all the further. He’s a college graduate, or near enough to. He’s old enough to know that you don’t publicly, visibly affiliate yourself with someone (especially not to the extent of an ad shown during the Super Bowl) without knowing exactly who they are.
That’s not his girlfriend, although she’s the girl you see most if you google “Tebow girlfriend”. That’s one of Maxim’s 2008 Hometown Hotties entrants and she figured a picture with Tebow would be good for recognizability or something.
So he’s nice to a disabled fan. Does that change the fact that he is, apparently, an advocate for abridging my civil rights based upon my ownership of a uterus? (And almost certainly based upon my sexuality as well?) And make him less of an ass for doing so? Nope, not one single little bit.
I will say that it’s kinda belittling to Tim Tebow to suggest that he’s not fully aware of the positions of FOTF. FOTF is a major organization in the U.S. Evangelical world & James Dobson is considered a good, if not great, man.
To shock the Doper community, a wavering half of the U.S. isn’t really down with pre-born baby-killing and more than half isn’t down with changing marriage definitions in ways the ancient Greeks didn’t even buy into. Tebow’s & FOTF’s stances will bother most Americans not a bit.