Tebow to appear in Focus on the Family commercial during SB XLIV

No, people who preach homophobia in the name of religion are bigots. They may or may not be assholes.

Only God will decide and I suspect She's not terribly amused with the Family Values Mafia. Or at least that's what my sources tell me.

 

"Finally"?

I said pages and pages ago that I admire Tebow for speaking out politically, something most athletes are reticent to do. I believe Jersey_Guy and others joined me in that assessment.

 

Don't get your panties in a wad. Credit to you and Jersey hereby given.

 

Point being that plenty of people made that same assessment, and that you're interpretation is quite inaccurate.

 

Don't mistake "homophobia" with their belief that it's wrong. That's the problem with the gay community. If you don't accept their lifestyle, but are content to let them life it, you're still a hater. I don't see modern-day Christians nailing homosexuals to trees. On the other hand, there are some religions in the world who cheerfully kill homosexuals.

 

As is your grammar.

 

"As is your grammar"

That's fairly weak, dude.

 

I know you are, but what am I?

 

Ah, so not killing them is the same thing as tolerating them.

Never mind that many of these so-called 'content to let them live it' folks want to maintain their right to deny employment, housing and other basic equal protections to homosexuals based purely on their sexuality.

But, hey, at least they're not being lynched, right? They should just shut up and be glad for what they have.

 

Marriage is a fundamental right in this country, and soon enough homosexuals are going to be recognized as a group deserving of strict scrutiny by the Court system when their fundamental rights, including marriage, are withheld.

The fact that they are killed in other countries doesn't do anything to mitigate a lack of basic rights here.

 

I'm assuming this means Tebow is a hardcore republican, so if that's true, hopefully he'll be campaigning for the good guys in Florida in 2012.

It will be the first time I've ever rooted for the guy.

 

Dobson is no longer on the board at Focus on the Family. Jim Daly, its new president and CEO, is interviewed here in the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/26/AR2009062603908.html

I've had the opportunity to spend some time with Daly and came away quite impressed. He's a very "normal" guy.

This is the first three paragraph's of Daly's bio:

Jim Daly's personal journey from orphan to head of an international Christian organization dedicated to helping families thrive is a powerful story. Abandoned by his alcoholic father at age 5, Daly lost his mother to cancer four years later – a wound deepened when his grieving stepfather emptied the family home and took off with almost everything while Daly, the youngest of five children, and his siblings were at their mother's funeral.

Several tough years in foster care followed, before Daly became a Christian in high school and found meaning, purpose and a sense of belonging.

"I am living proof," he wrote in his 2007 autobiography, Finding Home, "that no matter how torn up the road has already been, or how pothole-infested it may look ahead, nothing – nothing – is impossible for God."