I'll spit this out quick, before the armies of feminism try to gag me and strap electrodes to my forehead: Tim Tebow is one of the better things to happen to young women in some time. I realize this stance won't endear me to the "Dwindling Organizations of Ladies in Lockstep," otherwise known as DOLL, but I'll try to pick up the shards of my shattered feminist credentials and go on.
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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.

Pam Tebow and her son feel good enough about that choice to want to tell people about it. Only, NOW says they shouldn't be allowed to. Apparently NOW feels this commercial is an inappropriate message for America to see for 30 seconds, but women in bikinis selling beer is the right one. I would like to meet the genius at NOW who made that decision. On second thought, no, I wouldn't.

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Alleluia to Sally Jenkins, Sport Columnist for the Washington Post, where one usually would not read a commentary such as hers. I, who also love football, could not agree more!!
Let’s have fewer beer commercials and more Tebow messages in support of LIFE during the Super Bowl!!

[1] Posted by Deacon Francie on 02-02-2010 at 11:42 AM • top

Wow!!! Just Wow! Common sense and actual promotion of freedom of speech from one who identified politics would make on the more liberal side, who would have “thunk it?”

[2] Posted by Hosea6:6 on 02-02-2010 at 11:46 AM • top

The reaction to this ad should indicate just how dangerous pro-abortion advocates consider its message. Abortion is supposed to be transient and ephemeral; a non-event that leaves no trace, and is marked by no footsteps. Since by definition there was never a child there is by definition nothing to remember. But then along comes Tim Tebow to give a face to the event. He is living breathing irrefutable evidence that abortion is not simply the removal of tissue, but the termination of a life. He says “I would not exist if my mother had listened to her doctor.” The permanent consequence of abortion cannot be denied so long as he exists. Tebow is the life lived because a choice to abort was rejected.

But if he exists, then what of all those who do not exist because the choice to abort was accepted? Can we still say they were ephemeral non-events when we can see the endpoint of the road not taken? In Tim Tebow’s face can be seen the face of every aborted child. No longer a vapor that is here today and gone tomorrow, but the haunting image of a life never lived. The ugly reality of abortion is made starkly manifest in his simple existance, and this is why the pro-abortionists rage. What must be hidden in darkness has been exposed to the light, and they cannot abide it.

carl

[3] Posted by carl on 02-02-2010 at 12:10 PM • top

Amen, Carl. I couldn’t understand why members of NOW and other feminists were so upset about the tebow commercial, sight unseen, but I believe you have nailed it.

[4] Posted by Rick H. on 02-02-2010 at 01:19 PM • top

Tim Tebow,football career aside, will always be larger than life because he has without hesitation and without question publically given his life to the Lord. If he leads just one person to the crown of heaven then he will be a success.
Intercessor

[5] Posted by Intercessor on 02-02-2010 at 01:22 PM • top

Very well-put, Carl: “In Tim Tebow’s face can be seen the face of every aborted child. No longer a vapor that is here today and gone tomorrow, but the haunting image of a life never lived.” This is what explains the virulent response. Yes, light shines into the dark places—and the dark fights back.

[6] Posted by Paula on 02-02-2010 at 01:29 PM • top

I left a supportive comment for Ms. Jenkins on WaPo. The comments are the usual mix of vituperative vitriol from those opposed to her view, and the polite statements of support from those who agree with her.

[7] Posted by Raised as an Atheist on 02-02-2010 at 02:49 PM • top

Can’t wait to see it…

Something like this really does divide the darkness and the light…the “pro-abortion” crowd makes me sick and sad at the same time. Jesus - please let this commercial open the eyes of many who are on the fence on this important issue - Amen.

[8] Posted by B. Hunter on 02-02-2010 at 04:20 PM • top

Hooray for the pro-choice feminist who sees her “sisters” for the elitist snobs they are! She is no longer buying the party line (if she ever did - she’s a smart cookie!)and speaking up ::shudder:: against the establishment. hehehe - isn’t it cool that all the old hippies are now the establishment?!!?

Carl, you have nailed it again - and put voice (and face) to my thoughts about abortion supporters.
The fact is, if abortion indeed ends a life, most decent people would be HORRIFIED that it is a routine, on-demand occurrence. Therefore they placate themselves with terms like “fetus”, “pre-life”, etc.

Like slave-owners in the South and German citizens in Nazi Germany, the average citizen MUST de-humanize the objects of their oppression, or they won’t be able to live with themselves. This has happened throughout the ages - Paul’s exhortation to slave-owners to treat their slaves humanely (and release them if possible) was an OUTRAGEOUS counter-cultural thing to say!

[9] Posted by GillianC on 02-02-2010 at 04:44 PM • top

I loved Ms. Jenkins’ column, and highlighted it on my blog. I’ve since updated it with some of the nonsense that has spewed forth from the Post’s “On Faith” column, which today focuses on the Tebow ad.

[10] Posted by David Fischler on 02-02-2010 at 07:34 PM • top

I love that this writer points out the big thing at the dark heart of “pro-choice”—that it’s not pro-choice, it’s pro-death. Women should kill those little babies so they won’t be parasites on their lives. That’s the “pro-choice” message of most. It’s not about women making informed decisions that are right for them personally. It’s about choosing abortion and “freedom.”

[11] Posted by oscewicee on 02-02-2010 at 07:41 PM • top

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