I Keep Hearing About This Ad
And lookit what’s been published in the Washington Post: Tebow’s Super Bowl ad isn’t intolerant; its critics are
I’m pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But based on what I’ve heard in the past week, I’ll take his side against the group-think, elitism and condescension of the “National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women All The Time.” For one thing, Tebow seems smarter than they do.
Tebow’s 30-second ad hasn’t even run yet, but it already has provoked “The National Organization for Women Who Only Think Like Us” to reveal something important about themselves: They aren’t actually “pro-choice” so much as they are pro-abortion. Pam Tebow has a genuine pro-choice story to tell. She got pregnant in 1987, post-Roe v. Wade, and while on a Christian mission in the Philippines, she contracted a tropical ailment. Doctors advised her the pregnancy could be dangerous, but she exercised her freedom of choice and now, 20-some years later, the outcome of that choice is her beauteous Heisman Trophy winner son, a chaste, proselytizing evangelical.
Pam Tebow and her son feel good enough about that choice to want to tell people about it. Only, NOW says they shouldn’t be allowed to. Apparently NOW feels this commercial is an inappropriate message for America to see for 30 seconds, but women in bikinis selling beer is the right one. I would like to meet the genius at NOW who made that decision. On second thought, no, I wouldn’t.
Apparently he goes on mission trips every summer and lots more I won’t quote here. And just in case we’re thinking that it’s a creepy thing to be talking about during the Super Bowl:
Tebow’s ad, by the way, never mentions abortion; like the player himself, it’s apparently soft-spoken. It simply has the theme “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life.” This is what NOW has labeled “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.”
Good lord. I’ve tried looking on YouTube for the ad, but all I see are either news reports about it or else responses hissing about the “anti-choice” monsters behind it. And calls to donate money to the organizations behind the video against the ad.
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:48 am
Tebow is the real deal. I’ve followed him since he was in high school, a very capable and likeable young man. Sad that he got stuck in Hogtown, but hey them’s the breaks.