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

Tebow, who by all accounts in Ponte Vedra Beach, where my folks live, is actually an allright person (or else a kind of Terminator Eddie Haskell) is being poorly advised by his parents. This ad is not a good idea for him, no matter how sincere he is. Here's a controversial in football terms NFL draft pick. And now he's going out of his way to piss off a significant percentage, and in many franchise markets a majority, of the fan base? Stupid. Unless he knows he's going to Jacksonville already. He could kill a hobo on live TV there, and no one would care.

 

Don't look now, but ...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31880.html

 

Didn't the Mara family put together that video, with several of the Giants speaking out on the issue?

 

But Mike, regardless of his stance on an issue, this is a league where people convicted of vehicular homicide, people who barely escaped being convicted in murder (Ray Lewis) and people convicted of the most heinous type of animal cruelty are drawing NFL paychecks. No matter where you stand on the abortion issue, how will doing this commercial actually affect his draft status if NFL GMs think he can play? I think it's a lot to do about nothing. If they think he can play, he'll get a shot.

 

When you think about it though, 37 years is a relative short period of time for a law to become permanently settled.

Slavery was in existence in the first 89 years after the Declaration of Independence. Women couldn't vote until 144 years after the D of I. The concept of separate but equal lasted over 60 years.

I don't know if it'll ever be overturned, but if you're a pro-lifer, you're living in la-la land if they think abortion is going to go away if R vs. W. is ever overturned. They'll have to deal with women going to states where it is deemed legal, and also to deal with women dying from the back-alley abortions.

 

Regardless of the law, abortions happen in every country in the world. Legal abortions are safer than illegal ones. That's why I'd prefer it stay legal.

 

That could be used to justify legalizing almost anything.

 

For a guy whose name gets pretty liberally thrown around as the greatest player in college football history, he sure has plenty of doubters where his real skills and mechanics are concerned. You're not being very practical about this if you don't think he's situating himself for some kind of fallback if his career goes the way of Danny Wuerffel.

 

It's the safety issue that concerns me.

 

Agreed.

We're fooling ourselves if we think outlawing abortion is going to end it. If abortion is outlawed, only outlaws will have abortions. Or perform them.

It'll just go back underground. Is that really in anyone's interest?

 

And the tradeoff (legal abortions to save the lives of women who might get unsafe illegal ones) makes sense to you or me, but only because we don't believe that early-stage pregnancies are human beings on the same level as the women involved.

If you didn't already believe that, it wouldn't seem as important to keep the action safe.

 

The folks making that argument might have a bit more credibility if their concern for unborn children continued after they're born. But they're often the same folks who will vote against the programs that help kids after they leave the womb.