New York Jets bench warmer Tim Tebow is a QB who can’t throw, but he sure can sling the BS. 
The National Football League bust is scheduled to bang his Bible at one of the most backward and bigoted fundie churches in America. On, April 28 he will preach at 11,000-member First Baptist Dallas, a hate house led by divisive pastor Robert Jeffress, who seems to dislike many people.
Jeffress endorsed Texas’ buffoonish governor, Rick Perry, in his short-lived, flame-out presidential bid. The irreverent reverend said that Islam, Mormonism, and Judaism are heretical religions ‘from the pit of hell.’
On the eve of the presidential election in November 2012, Jeffress warned his Dallas congregation that President Barack Obama’s re-election would “lead to the rise of the Antichrist,” according to The Christian Post.
Jeffress also gained notoriety for his statements about the gay community. According to ThinkProgress, during the same speech where he endorsed Rick Perry in 2011, Jeffress told a crowd at the high-profile Values Voters Summit that gays should not be allowed in the military because “70 percent of the gay population” has AIDS.
He has also claimed that gay activists are trying to hide “the link between homosexuality and pedophilia,” according to Right Wing Watch. Said Jeffress:
There are a disproportionate amount of assaults against children by homosexuals than by heterosexuals, you can’t deny that, and the reason is very clear: homosexuality is perverse, it represents a degradation of a person’s mind and if a person will sink that low and there are no restraints from God’s law, then there is no telling to whatever sins he will commit as well.
For the record, pedophilia has zero to do with homosexuality or heterosexuality. Gay and straight men and women are oriented towards having sexual and romantic relations with adults — and find the idea of sex with children nauseating. A 2000 study by Dr. Michael R. Stevenson concluded, “A gay man is no more likely than a straight man to perpetrate sexual activity on children.” A 1994 study by Dr. Carole Jenny found that less than one-percent of the children in her study were abused by a gay man or lesbian. In 1978, Drs. Nicholas Groth and Jean Birnbaum found that none of the 175 molesters in their study had an exclusively homosexual adult orientation.
Given the sorry trajectory of his underachieving NFL career, Tebow should be more concerned about his weak arm than leading the armies of Christ. It is insulting and offensive that he would lend what remains of his sagging celebrity to a church dedicated to homophobia and intolerance.
Unsurprising. Hate never restricts itself to one brand. It is a virus. It spreads to other people, other ideas, other things. Such a shame to see someone like Tebow still wasting his life being nothing more than a tool used for such a malevolent purpose as this.
Such a cute man too. Though he is famous for doing the pray-in-public thing (didn’t Jesus say NOT to do this? Matthew 6?), I do not recall him spewing any homophobic spiel. If he had done so, I would have assumed he is in the closet like so many of the anti-gay types, in need of someone to ease him on out of it (let me do it!). It will be interesting to hear/see his sermon, I can’t help wondering what his topic will be.
Judaism is from the pit of hell? Oh man, he does know Jesus was a Jew right?
this preacher is a jackass spouting rubbish! 98 percent of child molesters are straight. I don’t know where he gets the figure that 70 percent of gay people have AIDS? That is simply not true. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta can attest to that. Also who gives a s**t about what Tim Tebow thinks? He’s a bad football player and also a moron! He definitely is not a preacher.
Home schooling at its finest
The fictitious christian judeo “god” is the virus, it’s believers are it’s carriers. Until this becomes majority fact, and this mock up kicked to the dustbin of antiquity with all other false gods of ancient past, the world will simply continue to writhe in it’s self imposed salacious illness.
And church people wonder why they get a bad name when there are people like Pastor Jeffress on the loose. He is a scandal to the Gospel he claims to represent. His ignorant views bear not the slightest resemblance to anything Jesus of Nazareth had in mind; yet he has the gall to claim to be a Christian.
Tim Tebow doesn’t have a prayer.
Tebow’s brain has been micro-concussed a few too many times.
ps..I and the people in my church are NOT the ‘carriers’ of any ‘virus’!
@RichardB
Herehere. No truer words were ever spoken.
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Jefress only preaches what the bible declares. Jesus himself said that he is the only way to the Father. Jesus condemned sexual sin, whether gay or straight. The scriptures only advocates sex between and man and a woman that are married. The book of Romans condemns homesexualism, as well as other N.T. books. Ask a Morman of Jew or Muslim if homosexualism is ok, and they will tell you it is not.. Liberals will defend Muslims, but if those Muslims ever get their way and declare Sharia Law, all these libs will find out the Muslims will throw them under the bus first. Then they will really have something to complain about, but it will not do any good. Now they try and destroy any Christian that dares go against what they believe. They do not want freedom of speech for anyone but themselves. Jefress has every right to speak out and he is doing so despite the oppostition. Tebow should have taken a lesson from him and not let the MSM bully him into canceling, because that is exactly what happened here.
Name the specific passage where Jesus said anything about being gay.
Bad juju… You really ought to avoid making things up about people. Paul was quite clear about the consequences of reviling others that you don’t know and know nothing about. It’s called reviling, and it means that you and I will be sharing a BBQ pit in hell.
So, your argument is that religion promotes bigotry.
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I don’t know anything about mormanism or islam, and I am sure there are radicals just like even in the christian church. There will always be crazies among those who want peace and love. Though I cannot commont on the two above, I do not know there faith, or what they believe, but to say anything about Jews. Jesus was a Jew, they are our brothers and sisters. How could anyone say anything hateful about a jewish person. If any jewish person is reading my comments, I just want to know that I love my jewish friends, and I wish there were more around where I lived, as I would would really like to learn so much of there faith.
We need to dispise bad people, and that goes in any faith, but we should go around and say, just because these few bad apples means the whole bunch are bad. Look at the westboro church, who say they are christian and run around spreading hatred, that is a whole group, at least I think, and a small one at that, but maybe there is a good apple in there that was born into it. I just read something about a young lady who was born into it and questioned it and left, because she wasn’t allowed to question there theologoy.