[I]f the anti-choice position is so true, so mainstream and so critical to the future of our nation, why did Focus on the Family spend $2.5 million to avoid saying anything whatsoever about it? Pam Tebow’s lines were all oblique references to her choice not to have an abortion, but if FotF felt the need to couch her story in such coded and oblique terms that it could have been an ad for Wii Family, doesn’t that say something incredibly telling about how weak and radical their position actually is?
Yep. They had to water it down to make it palatable, in the hopes that they would simply look like an organization that “embraces life,” much as one might embrace puppies and flowers!
I also believe that they intended to make the ad lame and benign in order to score a cheap point against those of us who were raising very real concerns about their true message. (Look at dem mean abortionists! All I see is a big miracle baby tacklin’ his mama!)
Women like Pam Tebow wouldn’t be heroes in any sense if it weren’t for Roe v. Wade. Those of us on the pro-choice side of things are the ones who actually support women like Pam Tebow, because we want them to be able to make these choices for themselves, with their doctors. (Read More)
As Joe Jervis points out, we’ve been hearing the propaganda for weeks now about how Tim Tebow’s mother was confronted with a difficult pregnancy, encouraged to have an abortion, and made the heroic and courageous choice to carry the pregnancy to term, so that her son Tim would one day sport Bible verses in his eyeblack and have a really hard time at NFL tryouts. As you all know, the propaganda has become even fiercer as Focus on the Family has spent $2.5 million on an anti-choice ad to be aired during the Super Bowl featuring Tebow’s story.
So, CBS rejects a pro-gay church ad a few years back and now a gay dating site with a comedy kiss. Yet, they are allowing Focus on the Family to broadcast an anti-abortion ad featuring football star Tim Tebow. Is this a double standard or did the dating ad deserve to be rejected? I’d love our reader’s thoughts on this matter.
