Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Tim Tebow: Super Bowl Commercial

I came across an interesting article in the Washington Post of all places.  Written by a woman who is unashamedly pro-choice in regards to abortions.  Here is the link to her article.  

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.

Joy Behar, obviously pro-choice anchor from The View, said on the show, "[People argue that Tim Tebow] could have just as easily become a rapist pedophile.  I mean, you don't know what someone is going to be..."  We never know who anyone is going to be, does that mean we stop having babies?  All children are created in the image of God (Genesis 1).  So it would be tragic and sinful to destroy that image...especially if we don't think they are going to be a model citizen.

There is a huge uproar about this ad.  The ad will be focused on celebrating life.  What is so wrong about that?  How does a commercial that celebrates the CHOICE Mr. Tebow made in choosing life, become an anti-choice ad?

I believe that this ad is well timed and will get a massive amount of attention, as it already has.  I hope and pray that this ad does more than just promote saving your child's life, but show how Christ can save your very soul.  Let us pray that this ad will help to bring people to Christ.

1 comment:

  1. MediaCurves.com just conducted a study with 602 viewers of a news clip regarding the Focus on the Family organizations’ Super Bowl ad. Results found that while the majority of viewers (62%) reported that the ad should not be pulled, pro-choice viewers were split on whether it should be aired. The majority of pro-life viewers (75%) indicated that the Super Bowl was an appropriate platform for controversial ads regarding social issues, while the majority of pro-choice viewers (66%) reported that the Super Bowl was not an appropriate platform.
    More in-depth results can be seen at:
    http://www.mediacurves.com/Advertising/J7730-FocusonFamilySuperbowlAd/Index.cfm
    Thanks,
    Ben

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