All-purpose, running Tim Tebow sucks/is a deity thread!

And the minority of Jaguars fans who are Gators (they only seem like the majority because they're loud and obnoxious) and perpetuating the Tebow persecution myth seem to forget that the quarterback who led them to all but one of their playoff victories in team history was Mark Brunell, who probably sleeps with his Bible. And blocking for Brunell was Tony Boselli, who's also a devout Christian.

 

Oh, he's a decent human ... as long as you think like him and look like you're in the first few of any city's First Baptist Church.

 

Didn't he do an ad for Focus on The Family which is pretty much a hate group?

"Focus on the Family opposes abortion, divorce, gambling, LGBT rights, LGBT adoption, pornography, pre-marital sex, and substance abuse. It supports abstinence-only sexual education, non-LGBT adoption, corporal punishment, creationism, school prayer, and strong gender roles."

 

That's an interesting quote.

And, since it is in quotes, I'm assuming it comes from their website, or other official statement. Could you please provide a link to it?

 

Of course, that "quote" comes from the source any true journalist would use: Wikipedia. *smh*

 

"No one has spread the anti-gay gospel as widely, or with as much political impact, as James Dobson, the former child development professor and spanking enthusiast who founded Focus on the Family (FOF) in 1977.

On Focus' 47-acre campus in Colorado Springs, some 1,300 employees battle against gay rights, sex education and women's rights with an enormous annual budget of $130 million. Dobson's radio show, dispensing homespun parenting advice along with jabs at "the militant homosexual agenda," is heard daily on more than 9,000 radio stations worldwide, giving him an estimated listening audience of more than 200 million.

Focus' president from 2003 to early 2005, Don Hodel, formerly served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior and head of the Christian Coalition, and now chairs the Council for National Policy, a secretive group of America's most powerful right-wing leaders that Dobson formerly chaired.

As early as 1989, Dobson came under attack from a fellow conservative evangelical, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who accused him of "reprehensible" and "homophobic" use of false information about how AIDS is transmitted. But Focus began to really flex its anti-gay political muscles in 1992, when Dobson used his radio show to turn Colorado's anti-gay Amendment 2 (see Holy War) into a fundamentalist cause célèbre.

Among the scores of anti-gay commentaries, stories and products on FOF's Web site is a Dobson essay that strikes a typical note: "Moms and Dads, are you listening? This movement is the greatest threat to your children. It is of particular danger to your wide-eyed boys, who have no idea what demoralization is planned for them." Another article claims that "the homosexual agenda is a beast. It wants our kids."

According to a 1997 book by former FOF staffer Gil Alexander-Moegerle, Dobson once said, "Communities do not let prostitutes, pedophiles, voyeurs, adulterers and those who sexually prefer animals to publicly celebrate their lifestyle, so why should homosexuals get such privileges?" He has also recommended parents withdraw from Parent-Teacher Associations because they allegedly have a liberal social agenda.

But none of this cut into Dobson's effectiveness as he successfully spearheaded the national campaign against gay marriage in 2003 and 2004 No one has spread the anti-gay gospel as widely, or with as much political impact, as James Dobson, the former child development professor and spanking enthusiast who founded Focus on the Family (FOF) in 1977.

On Focus' 47-acre campus in Colorado Springs, some 1,300 employees battle against gay rights, sex education and women's rights with an enormous annual budget of $130 million. Dobson's radio show, dispensing homespun parenting advice along with jabs at "the militant homosexual agenda," is heard daily on more than 9,000 radio stations worldwide, giving him an estimated listening audience of more than 200 million.

Focus' president from 2003 to early 2005, Don Hodel, formerly served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior and head of the Christian Coalition, and now chairs the Council for National Policy, a secretive group of America's most powerful right-wing leaders that Dobson formerly chaired.

As early as 1989, Dobson came under attack from a fellow conservative evangelical, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who accused him of "reprehensible" and "homophobic" use of false information about how AIDS is transmitted. But Focus began to really flex its anti-gay political muscles in 1992, when Dobson used his radio show to turn Colorado's anti-gay Amendment 2 (see Holy War) into a fundamentalist cause célèbre.

Among the scores of anti-gay commentaries, stories and products on FOF's Web site is a Dobson essay that strikes a typical note: "Moms and Dads, are you listening? This movement is the greatest threat to your children. It is of particular danger to your wide-eyed boys, who have no idea what demoralization is planned for them." Another article claims that "the homosexual agenda is a beast. It wants our kids."

According to a 1997 book by former FOF staffer Gil Alexander-Moegerle, Dobson once said, "Communities do not let prostitutes, pedophiles, voyeurs, adulterers and those who sexually prefer animals to publicly celebrate their lifestyle, so why should homosexuals get such privileges?" He has also recommended parents withdraw from Parent-Teacher Associations because they allegedly have a liberal social agenda.

But none of this cut into Dobson's effectiveness as he successfully spearheaded the national campaign against gay marriage in 2003 and 2004"


http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2005/spring/a-mighty-army#10

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/03/09/439796/focus-on-the-familys-most-pathetic-argument-against-same-sex-adoption/

YF, you wouldn't agree with me if I said the grass was green, so I don't even know why I bother with you. Your hatred (or maybe obsession is a sign of love) of me is so apparent.

 

I've changed my opinion in recent years and am pretty much ambivalent about things like gay marriage. I could care less. Live and let live. And I've got little use for the Christian right, which has done considerable damage to the Republican party. But being opposed to certain lifestyle is not being a "hate group." And supporting creationism, abstinence, school prayer might be 19th century thinking but doesn't involve hating anyone.
Getting pretty tired of this all or nothing attitude from both sides of an issue.

 

When you actively seek to deny people rights that everyone is supposed to have because of a "certain lifestyle" you're a hate group.

 

Is the "Tebow, Christian Persecution and Christian Hate-Speech" colloquium a weekly event or monthly?

 

Persecuted christians is the biggest load of bullshit since, well, the bible.

 

So is Christian hate-speech, at least for the vast majority.

 

Unless you want to solidify your reputation, you might want to at least qualify this claim geographically.