This morning I heard an interview discussing the furor over CBS choosing to air a Focus on the Family commercial during the NFL Superbowl. Yes, it's a Christian organization. Yes, the commercial is a pro-life commercial about Tim Tebow's mother being advised to have an abortion when she was pregnant with him. Tebow is a star athlete, a quarterback for the Florida Gators and two-time Heisman Trophy winner. His parents are Christian missionaries in the Philippines. While she was pregnant with Tim , Pam Tebow contracted dysentery and doctors advised her to abort the baby to save her life. She chose not to abort, and the world has been enriched by the life of a fine young man.

All over the country the pro-abortion spokespeople are up in arms. How dare they air this commercial trying to tell women what to do with their bodies? And one woman insisted that this commercial is inappropriate during the SuperBowl, it should have been chosen to air during the Oscars or something more fitting. What a bunch of loonies we have running around in this world! One woman telling her story and urging women to choose life is not telling anyone what to do, it is encouraging them to consider that option. We don't blink an eye about beer commercials that peddle death and disease. And it's okay to sell medicines that have side effects more terrifying than the illness they are supposed to treat. But life? We don't want to promote THAT.

Think about the monumental impact abortion on demand has had on our world. Those millions of babies thrown into the garbage starting in the 1970's would today be adults with kids of their own. Most of them would likely be productive citizens working and paying taxes and boosting our economy. Think of the talent we have lost, the inventors, the teachers, the artists and authors and musicians that MIGHT have been born. Most them were snuffed out before we ever had the chance to know what we were missing, largely because they were "inconvenient" for the mother.

In the days of the ancient religions, parents would sacrifice their children to their gods in order to guarantee good crops or prosperity. They would take their babies to the temples of Baal and Moloch and Chemosh where the priests, called Kahns, would offer the babies into the mouths of those idols. The live babies would drop into the fire below to be roasted alive...and later EATEN by the priests as an offering! That is the root of our modern word "cannibal" (Kahn of Baal). The motivation of those heathen parents was not really different from the motivation behind the vast majority of abortions. It's not a good time, I need to pursue my career, I need to finish my education, I can't afford to have a baby. All about self and nothing about the value of the unborn baby who has no say in the process. We would shudder at the thought of doing what those idol-worshpping people did centuries ago. But tell me how we are any better today? Because now we go into the womb months before the baby is ready for birth, and we cut it into pieces and toss it in the garbage. We kill the baby in a way that the mother doesn't have to see what she has done. And somehow that is "humane"?

Makes me sick...

Correction: Tim Tebow was not a two-time winner of the Heisman Trophy. Wikipedia states, "In addition to the Heisman Trophy, his performance in 2007 also earned him the Maxwell Award as the nation's top football player, the Davey O'Brien Award as the nation's best quarterback, and the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's most outstanding amateur athlete in any sport."

Comments

 
0 #13 RE: The Tebow Commercial ControversyAl in SoCal 2010-02-08 17:18
Yet another judgmental opinion on they 'whys' of abortion. Most people are not pro-abortion just pro-choice. The difference is we accept and even applaud Mrs. Tebow's decision, but that's just it. It was a decision that she made that she and apparently YOU would simply take away.

You by the way do not know why women are having abortions, nor is it your business. It is between her and her doctor and nobody else.
Quote
 
 
0 #12 RE: The Tebow Commercial ControversyAl in SoCal 2010-02-08 17:11
It's not the ad's contents that are the problem - but the group sponsoring it. Focus on the Family is anything but focused on the 'family'. Instead it's front for a hate-based group very much dedicated to denying women, gays, immigrants, and any others who are not white Christian males, rights.

This ad was actually quite nice, but if only CBS had handled it correctly by saying up front that issue ads would be allowed instead of only allowing this one.

This is what most of us had a problem with. At some point in the science-denying hate crowd AKA evangelical "Christians" will be as liked as pro-segregrationist s are today.
Quote
 
 
0 #11 RE: The Tebow Commercial ControversyDani 2010-02-07 17:47
You are an uninformed individual. The issue is that CBS has refused to air an ad for a gay dating website, or Pro-Choice ads but is opening it's airtime for Pro-Life ads. It is UNFAIR. No one sees abortion as a favorable option, but having it available for women who have been RAPED or their lives are at risk is important. I am Pro-Life and proud; I am a young woman, and would like to know that if I were attacked and violated, I would not have to carry to term a child conceived in violence and hate. And anyone who claims to be Christian and is anti-gay is a HYPOCRITE and should have their rights taken away.
Quote
 
 
0 #10 RE: The Tebow Commercial Controversymjtimber 2010-02-02 23:08
I have no problem with the Tebow's message and commercial, though the fact that abortion was illegal in the Philippines does bring into question the story's accuracy. But it seems the height of hypocrisy for CBS to show this blatantly political statement, while refusing to air equally inflammatory commercials from MoveOn.org and PETA during previous Super Bowls. It has in the past blocked commercials, in their own words, that "touch(es) on and/or takes a position on one side of a current controversial issue of public importance." Abortion is one of the most divisive issues in our culture. CBS should be force to explain their position.
Quote
 
 
0 #9 RE: The Tebow Commercial ControversyRassayana 2010-01-30 05:58
Get over yourselves, no one is Pro-Abortion. As a Pro-Choice woman, I don't like abortions and I don't like seeing them happen. No one wants to see woman abort their babies, NO ONE.

We strictly reserve the right to give those women a choice to do what they feel is in their best interests. Stop ramming your archaic religion down everyone's throats and live your own life how you see fit, stop worrying about other people.
Quote
 
 
-2 #8 RE: The Tebow Commercial Controversysupport 2010-01-30 02:34
Actually the word is older than Columbus, sorry. Even today the name Cohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Kahn/Cahn and its derivations all mean priest.
The origin of the word 'Cannibal'

This practice has its roots in a prime function of all priests of Baal. Keep in mind that the Hebrew word for priest is Cahn.

Consider the following quote from The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop, page 232: “And it was a principle of the Mosaic law, a principle no doubt derived from the patriarchal faith, that the priest must partake of whatever was offered as a sin-offering (Numbers xviii. 9, 10). Hence, the priests... were necessarily required to eat of the human sacrifices; and thus it has come to pass that ‘Cahna-Bal,’ the ‘Priest of Baal,’ is the established word in our own tongue for a devourer of human flesh.”
Quote
 
 
0 #7 RE: The Tebow Commercial ControversyRoger 2010-01-30 02:08
If you trust Wikipedia, as you cite above, here is their explanation of the origin of the word Cannibal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism. Very different than what you have written.
Quote
 
 
-2 #6 RE: The Tebow Commercial ControversyM 2010-01-30 01:50
I too consider myself to be a follower of Christ, yet I find this article and the proposed commercial it supports to be very offensive. The fact that Tim Tebow is an incredible athlete and leader has no bearing on whether or not a woman should be able to choose to continue her pregnancy. The two are separate issues, and are inappropriately being conflated. Furthermore, the rant against some imagined cannibal priests is just inflammatory and untrue.
Quote
 
 
+2 #5 Tebow CommercialLogan Bailey 2010-01-29 23:22
First off. Tebow won the heisman once. 3 time finalist though. I think it is his choice if he wants to share a true story about himself and his mother. He stands for what he believes, and we should respect that and his Freedom of Speech.
Quote
 
 
-9 #4 Tebow CommercialSam 2010-01-29 12:32
Come on Tebow, stop promoting yourself to be a NFL quarterback!
Quote
 

This content has been locked. You can no longer post any comment.

Back2theLand

  • Adventure awaits at Anchor Stone

    anchorstone04Tired of the every day humdrum, boring existence?  Do you want to get away from it all?  Then let us take a look at ESCAPE! Every year people seek escape and follow the herd to the same old boardwalks, sunburns and plastic foods. Some take cruises only to find that...

Opinions

Rick Boucher Listens...
Snyder Bill Crockett

I have been seeing a TV commercial claiming that "Rick Boucher listens" and I would like to share my thoughts on that. Rick Boucher does indeed listen, but not to those he pretends to represent. We al [ ... ]


             No account yet?