# Is Tim Tebow a hypocrite? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 29, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tim-tebow-a-hypocrite/607717 "2011-12-29T13:43:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Untoward\_Parable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Untoward\_Parable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Untoward_Parable)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tim-tebow-a-hypocrite/607717/101 "2012-01-03T20:02:26Z")
> [@Theophane](#): > > Why must everyone be a repressed homosexual? :rolleyes: I didn’t say they all were just that Tebow strikes me as one. His life is a performance in diminishing suspicion of homosexuality: “I will be a football star and praise God on the field every game, then no one will suspect me!” Also again he just strikes me that way IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Theophane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@Theophane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theophane)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tim-tebow-a-hypocrite/607717/102 "2012-01-03T20:06:46Z")
> [@Untoward\_Parable](#): > > I didn’t say they all were just that Tebow strikes me as one. His life is a performance in diminishing suspicion of homosexuality: “I will be a football star and praise God on the field every game, then no one will suspect me!” Also again he just strikes me that way IMHO. Sounds like paranoid fantasy. How come it’s never the other way around, where flamboyant gay men are accused of being secretly straight? ---
**Author:** ![Untoward\_Parable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Untoward\_Parable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Untoward_Parable)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tim-tebow-a-hypocrite/607717/103 "2012-01-03T20:10:10Z")
> [@Theophane](#): > > Sounds like paranoid fantasy. > > How come it’s never the other way around, where flamboyant gay men are accused of being secretly straight? Because there s no social pressure to be flamboyantly gay, maybe flamboyant if you are gonna be gay anyway in some places, mostly not, but not to be gay. This is a simple one I think. ---
**Author:** ![Theophane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@Theophane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theophane)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tim-tebow-a-hypocrite/607717/104 "2012-01-03T20:29:26Z")
> [@Untoward\_Parable](#): > > Because there s no social pressure to be flamboyantly gay, maybe flamboyant if you are gonna be gay anyway in some places, mostly not, but not to be gay. This is a simple one I think. So everyone is gay, even if they’re not? No, that makes no sense. I’ll grant you there are many closeted gay people using the appeance of heterosexuality as a smokescreen, but there are even more visible heterosexuals who are exactly what they seem to be. ---
**Author:** ![Untoward\_Parable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Untoward\_Parable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Untoward_Parable)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tim-tebow-a-hypocrite/607717/105 "2012-01-03T20:38:14Z")
> [@Theophane](#): > > So everyone is gay, even if they’re not? No, that makes no sense. I’ll grant you there are many closeted gay people using the appeance of heterosexuality as a smokescreen, but there are even more visible heterosexuals who are exactly what they seem to be. No… That is not what I said. I said that there are closeted gays out there and that I think Tebow is one of them. I don’t know why I have to walk you down the obvious meaning of what I’ve written. People that are angry tend to stop thinking properly so maybe that’s your issue, take a breath, regroup. I don’t think everyone with similar pursuits is gay, just watching this guy talk gives me that feeling. I could be wrong, people are very complex, but it’s the suspicion I’m leaning towards. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tim-tebow-a-hypocrite/607717/106 "2012-01-03T20:45:28Z")
> [@Untoward\_Parable](#): > > mostly just a spazzy idiot, probably a repressed homo as well Grow up. I’m issuing a warning here and instructing everybody to drop this nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tim-tebow-a-hypocrite/607717/107 "2012-01-04T00:25:35Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > What is hypocritical to me is anyone involved in missionary work in third world countries who holds the food hostage before passing out the bibles. :rolleyes: Do you have proof that he’s done so? Do you know that he’s ever refused to feed anyone who wouldn’t convert? > [@](#): > > One question: if the Steelers break Tebow’s back this week, would he thank Jesus for the test?? I don’t know about Tebow, but I certainly would. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tim-tebow-a-hypocrite/607717/108 "2012-01-04T05:03:57Z")
> [@Theophane](#): > > How come it’s never the other way around, where flamboyant gay men are accused of being secretly straight? Wasn’t that the premise of “Three’s Company?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tim-tebow-a-hypocrite/607717.md?page=5)