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Focus On The Family And A Football Phenom
By JANE GILVARY, For The Bulletin
“Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.” – Ronald Reagan
I was watching “America’s Funniest Home Videos” the other night, the last of the truly family friendly TV shows. The only crotches on this show are ones getting hit by golf clubs or baseballs. But my favorite clips are the ones that feature grandparents first hearing news that a grandchild is on the way. The reactions are priceless, endearing, and always quite visceral. You can’t help but smile when Grandma knocks over the Christmas tree, euphoric that a baby is on the way.
What strikes me about these clips is that they underscore the idea that life, especially the creation of a new one, deserves celebration. The expectant parents in the clips are always happy to share their good news with family members, and the family members, usually grandparents, are always ecstatic to know that they will soon welcome a new addition to the family. These jubilant and joyous glimpses into American family life illustrate our inherent nature to recognize that a new life is quite precious. Imagine, in severe contrast, clips of expectant parents telling their family members that they chose abortion instead of life. There simply aren’t celebrations for abortions. ABC/Disney would never air such clips anyway because they would horrify viewers and send sponsors packing.
Apparently a Focus on the Family pro-life ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mother that will air during Sunday’s Super Bowl is equally as horrifying to feminist groups, led by the National Organization for Women and the Women’s Media Center (WMC). Both groups have launched campaigns urging CBS to abandon its plans to air the ad. WMC’s media director Jehmu Greene, whose own mother chose life, claims that Focus on the Family “is extremely intolerant and divisive and pushing an un-American agenda.” Since when is it un-American to speak freely about one’s beliefs? And what’s so un-American about encouraging life? WMC has launched an online petition urging CBS to cancel an ad that virtually no one has even seen yet, using inflammatory and irresponsible rhetoric such as “Abortion’s a serious issue. I’d like to be sober when discussing,” and “Religious confessionals should be reserved for Sunday morning. Game time is 6:30pm.”
Once again liberals have their britches in a caboodle about a pro-life, pro-family message, but this time the message just happens to be coming from a two-time-BCS-champion-quarterback-Heisman-trophy-winner and his Christian-missionary- homeschooling-mom and it will air during one of the most watched sporting events of the year. In the commercial, Pam Tebow, Tim’s mom, will tell the story of her high-risk pregnancy 22 years ago. The Tebows were living in the Philippines as Christian missionaries when Pam contracted a dangerous illness, but ignored doctors’ suggestions to abort her son. Pam Tebow did what feminists have been urging women to do since the Supreme Court’s controversial Roe v. Wade decision back in 1973—she made a choice, but she chose life for her son Tim, not death.
So, what are feminists so fired up about? First, the Tebows are Christians. Mention God or anything to do with faith and libertines will howl in dissent. They feel that they have the right and the power to prevent CBS, a private corporation, from airing such an overtly positive message about Pam Tebow’s choice to obey God and leave the consequences to Him. If Christians are allowed this kind of blatant promotion of their faith, what’s next? Stations of the Cross before the coin toss? Surely the First Amendment doesn’t apply to Christians or pro-lifers, right?
Second, Pam Tebow’s message is the wrong one for feminists. They encourage choice, but detest that Pam Tebow’s choice was life. There’s also an inherent and ridiculous fear that Roe v. Wade will somehow be overturned if others even entertain the idea of choosing life over abortion. In fact, it’s very unlikely that Roe v. Wade will ever be overturned in this country, but it could be rendered useless if the one million mothers who abort babies every year in the U.S. choose life instead of death. It would simply become one of those silly antiquated laws that still exists because no one bothered to change it; like the law in Blythe, California that a person must own two cows if he wants to wear cowboy boots in public. We’d read about Roe v. Wade on a Snapple bottle cap as a “Real Fact” and everyone at the dinner table would try to imagine living in times when such a ridiculous law existed. They might even remark, “What were people thinking back then?”
What feminists are fired up about the most is that Tim Tebow is a man advocating on what they allege to be strictly a women’s issue. But abortion affects men just as much as it affects women—after all, men play an equal role in conception—and there is plenty of research to suggest as much. In “Portraits of Post-Abortive Fathers Devastated by the Abortion Experience” the now deceased abortion researcher, author, and lawyer Thomas Strahan details the problems reported by men who’ve experienced abortion. They include suicidal behavior, sexual dysfunction, substance abuse, self-hate, depression, guilt and broken relationships, to mention just a few.
That Tim Tebow, a grown man with an assured NFL future before him would stand proudly with his mother in a commercial watched by millions of people on Super Bowl Sunday speaks volumes about his character, courage, faith, and maturity—a refreshing change from the delinquency and egoism so often associated with high profile athletes. Touchdown Tebow.
Jane Gilvary is a freelance writer and a red, white and blue American from the City of Brotherly Love. She loves Jesus, Johnny Cash, and the U. S. Constitution.
I was watching “America’s Funniest Home Videos” the other night, the last of the truly family friendly TV shows. The only crotches on this show are ones getting hit by golf clubs or baseballs. But my favorite clips are the ones that feature grandparents first hearing news that a grandchild is on the way. The reactions are priceless, endearing, and always quite visceral. You can’t help but smile when Grandma knocks over the Christmas tree, euphoric that a baby is on the way.
What strikes me about these clips is that they underscore the idea that life, especially the creation of a new one, deserves celebration. The expectant parents in the clips are always happy to share their good news with family members, and the family members, usually grandparents, are always ecstatic to know that they will soon welcome a new addition to the family. These jubilant and joyous glimpses into American family life illustrate our inherent nature to recognize that a new life is quite precious. Imagine, in severe contrast, clips of expectant parents telling their family members that they chose abortion instead of life. There simply aren’t celebrations for abortions. ABC/Disney would never air such clips anyway because they would horrify viewers and send sponsors packing.
Apparently a Focus on the Family pro-life ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mother that will air during Sunday’s Super Bowl is equally as horrifying to feminist groups, led by the National Organization for Women and the Women’s Media Center (WMC). Both groups have launched campaigns urging CBS to abandon its plans to air the ad. WMC’s media director Jehmu Greene, whose own mother chose life, claims that Focus on the Family “is extremely intolerant and divisive and pushing an un-American agenda.” Since when is it un-American to speak freely about one’s beliefs? And what’s so un-American about encouraging life? WMC has launched an online petition urging CBS to cancel an ad that virtually no one has even seen yet, using inflammatory and irresponsible rhetoric such as “Abortion’s a serious issue. I’d like to be sober when discussing,” and “Religious confessionals should be reserved for Sunday morning. Game time is 6:30pm.”
Once again liberals have their britches in a caboodle about a pro-life, pro-family message, but this time the message just happens to be coming from a two-time-BCS-champion-quarterback-Heisman-trophy-winner and his Christian-missionary- homeschooling-mom and it will air during one of the most watched sporting events of the year. In the commercial, Pam Tebow, Tim’s mom, will tell the story of her high-risk pregnancy 22 years ago. The Tebows were living in the Philippines as Christian missionaries when Pam contracted a dangerous illness, but ignored doctors’ suggestions to abort her son. Pam Tebow did what feminists have been urging women to do since the Supreme Court’s controversial Roe v. Wade decision back in 1973—she made a choice, but she chose life for her son Tim, not death.
So, what are feminists so fired up about? First, the Tebows are Christians. Mention God or anything to do with faith and libertines will howl in dissent. They feel that they have the right and the power to prevent CBS, a private corporation, from airing such an overtly positive message about Pam Tebow’s choice to obey God and leave the consequences to Him. If Christians are allowed this kind of blatant promotion of their faith, what’s next? Stations of the Cross before the coin toss? Surely the First Amendment doesn’t apply to Christians or pro-lifers, right?
Second, Pam Tebow’s message is the wrong one for feminists. They encourage choice, but detest that Pam Tebow’s choice was life. There’s also an inherent and ridiculous fear that Roe v. Wade will somehow be overturned if others even entertain the idea of choosing life over abortion. In fact, it’s very unlikely that Roe v. Wade will ever be overturned in this country, but it could be rendered useless if the one million mothers who abort babies every year in the U.S. choose life instead of death. It would simply become one of those silly antiquated laws that still exists because no one bothered to change it; like the law in Blythe, California that a person must own two cows if he wants to wear cowboy boots in public. We’d read about Roe v. Wade on a Snapple bottle cap as a “Real Fact” and everyone at the dinner table would try to imagine living in times when such a ridiculous law existed. They might even remark, “What were people thinking back then?”
What feminists are fired up about the most is that Tim Tebow is a man advocating on what they allege to be strictly a women’s issue. But abortion affects men just as much as it affects women—after all, men play an equal role in conception—and there is plenty of research to suggest as much. In “Portraits of Post-Abortive Fathers Devastated by the Abortion Experience” the now deceased abortion researcher, author, and lawyer Thomas Strahan details the problems reported by men who’ve experienced abortion. They include suicidal behavior, sexual dysfunction, substance abuse, self-hate, depression, guilt and broken relationships, to mention just a few.
That Tim Tebow, a grown man with an assured NFL future before him would stand proudly with his mother in a commercial watched by millions of people on Super Bowl Sunday speaks volumes about his character, courage, faith, and maturity—a refreshing change from the delinquency and egoism so often associated with high profile athletes. Touchdown Tebow.
Jane Gilvary is a freelance writer and a red, white and blue American from the City of Brotherly Love. She loves Jesus, Johnny Cash, and the U. S. Constitution.
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