Tim Tebow has made a stand to express his Christian views about the sanctity of life. The Tebow Super Bowl ad run in the first quarter of the game was very subdued but had a profound hidden message. All life is precious to God. The story of Tebow's mom making the decision to keep him rather than abort him even though doctors recommended it, shows her convictions as well.
Before the Super Bowl, numerous pro-abortion groups attacked Tebow and CBS for running the ad during a sports event. The fact is that these groups would have attacked Tebow and CBS no matter when they ran the ad! The anti-Christian campaign growing in America is taking the form of attacks against celebrities who share their faith in public, persecution of Christians in public schools and now churches being burned the ground in Texas. Tebow must be congratulated for being the man of God he says he is and not doing what Jesus' brother James said, "Faith without works is dead." America needs more Christians like Tebow who will be bold enough to step out of their comfort zones and confess their faith beyond the walls of the church. America needs more good examples to follow.
Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score
David Gibson
Columnist
Who'd have guessed that Focus on the Family would have so much in common with ManCrunch?
The latter is the gay dating service that had its Super Bowl spot rejected by CBS, while Focus on the Family is the flagship political lobby of the Christian right that has been generating buzz for weeks over its pro-life ad starring Heisman-winning quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother
Turns out both outfits won big, because both realized that having everyone talk about you is every bit as important as actually doing or saying something controversial.
ManCrunch surely knew that going in, as companies often submit ads they know will get rejected by the network but will become all the more famous because of that rejection. It was win-win all the way. If ManCrunch's ad was accepted (watch it here; Fanhouse's coverage of all Super Bowl ads here), it would have been a breakthrough in network TV, and watched by millions of viewers. If it was rejected -- as turned out to be the case -- it would go viral and be watched by millions of viewers, though via YouTube and other sites.
Cha-ching!
Focus on the Family apparently knew the same thing. For weeks before the big game, the controversy over CBS' decision to reverse its previous policy barring advocacy ads to air the ad against abortion had sent Pam Tebow's story ricocheting around the Internet: how, as a Baptist missionary in the Philippines in 1987, she contracted amoebic dysentery while pregnant and was given drugs so powerful they caused a detached placenta and led doctors to forecast a stillborn baby or a child with terrible birth defects. The doctors reportedly counseled her to have an abortion that could save her life, but Pam Tebow refused. The result was Tim Tebow, superstar college football QB and pro-life poster child.
Pro-choice groups fulminated and a few hot-headed liberals fumed (though most media supported the ad -- they love the First Amendment more than policy positions, and they must salivate over the $2.8 million for 30 seconds of Super Bowl airtime that Focus on the Family paid to CBS).
The pushback only generated more support for Tebow and Focus and their message, and had anti-abortion types crowing about how Pam Tebow would be discussing her difficult choice for life and urging Americans to fight abortion.
Then came the Super Bowl, and the ad, which ran in the first quarter, after spots for Bud Light and Snickers.
The ad fit right in. It opens simply, and the only black-and-white aspect of the spot was Pam Tebow's black outfit and the white background behind her. She speaks in an appealingly folksy voice, with pleasing guitar chords underneath:
PAM: I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn't make it into this world. I can remember so many times when I almost lost him. It was so hard. Well, he's all grown up now, and I still worry about his health. You know, with all our family's been through, you have to be tough.
Suddenly Tim plows in from stage left and tackles his mom. But she pops up, with a coy scold in her voice:
PAM: Timmy! I'm trying to tell our story here.
TIM: Sorry about that, Mom. You still worry about me, Mom?
PAM: Well, yeah. You're not nearly as tough as I am.
The ad closes with text telling viewers to visit the Focus on the Family Web site for the full Tebow story.
No mention of abortion, no recounting of the dramatic story. No need. Without any frame of reference, the spot could have been a pitch for osteoporosis medication or the need for universal health care or a reminder not to forget Mother's Day. But everyone knew what the ad was about and the ad didn't have to say anything directly -- which is the definition of the perfect advocacy ad. It was charming and disarming and went with the flow of the Super Bowl mania.
Contrast that with the woefully flat-footed counter ad that Planned Parenthood released before the Super Bowl in an effort to preempt what it figured would be an earnest anti-abortion message.
Oops. Tebow and Focus on the Family pump-faked, and tossed one over the head of the backpedaling defenders for a TD.
Jill Stanek, a pro-life nurse and blogger, pointed out that the ad was so light and touching that any viewer would be hard-pressed to be offended.
"So the last laugh is on pro-aborts," Stanek told LifeNews.com. "They gave the Tebow ad a forum to discuss abortion that pro-lifers could never have gotten from it alone."
She added that the ad is "quite tame, ambiguous really. In fact, one wouldn't know their topic was the pro-life issue -- that Pam made a 'choice' to bring Tim into the world -- were it not for all the hype."
Then again, that could be a problem in and of itself. Successful Super Bowl ads don't generally operate on the higher plane of subtlety and nuance. Moreover, if the pro-life movement is no more than a warm and fuzzy greeting card sentiment, what are they calling on people to do?
Still, there's no doubt this round went to pro-lifers, Focus on the Family, and perhaps most notably, Tim Tebow himself.
With questions swirling about whether Tebow, despite his stellar record at the University of Florida, will be drafted in the first-round by an NFL team, or even if he has the stuff to reproduce his college record in the pros, the Super Bowl advertisement looks as much like an agent's promotional video as it does a hot-button advocacy ad.
Bad examples-
Lindsay Lohan has had a very controversial career so far and she seems to always reinvent herself to remain that way! According to some articles on Lohan, she has dabbled in Judaism, Scientology ( the religion of John Travolta and Tom Cruz), Kabbala (ancient Jewish beliefs Madonna follows) and what seems to be a return to her Catholic roots.
Many Christians are now upset because of a recent pose Lohan did for a French magazine called Purple Fashion Magazine. The photo shows Lohan dressed in a white outfit with a crown of thorns on her head in a crucifix-type pose. The photo shows most of Lohan's chest exposed and looking like a Christ-figure. The responses about Lohan doing this pose have been very critical from Christians. One article (below) states Lohan may be returning to her Catholic roots which may explain her magazine pose and her recent wearing of a large cross.
It is possible that Lohan is looking for God but is going about it in the wrong way. Pray for her and her salvation. Christians should NOT be quick to curse the darkness BEFORE you understand where Lohan is in her walk with God. Remember, the apostle Paul was killing Christians before he gave his life to Christ!
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Lindsay Lohan Makes Christians Cross
David Gibson columnist
Leave it to Lindsay. The "Mean Girls" star and a tabloid mainstay -- thanks to her various antics on the town, any town -- has explored Judaism, experimented with Scientology and Kabbalah, and has been in relationships both straight and gay.
Now she's striking a pose as Jesus Christ.
Lohan appears on the cover of the latest edition of Purple, a French fashion magazine, wearing a long white gown with a plunging neckline, a headdress designed like a crown of thorns, and with her arms outstretched like the crucified Christ.
The 23-year-old actress and model has often been seen, as above, wearing a large cross around her neck, so the cover shot could -- in a very generous reading -- be seen as a return to her roots since she was raised Roman Catholic. (Besides, her dad, Michael Lohan, did a stint as Jesus' father, Joseph, at a Times Square nativity scene a couple years ago.)
But some Catholics certainly aren't happy about Lohan channeling Jesus.
"Not only is the pose inappropriate, the timing is offensive" because the sacred season of Lent starts next week, said Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, the anti-Catholicism watchdog.
Donohue noted that the "spiritually homeless" Lohan recently tweeted that "i'm all about Karma...what goes around comes around." Added Donohue: "If she believes that, then it behooves her to apologize to Christians before it's too late." He also pulled a Brit Hume and suggested that, like Tiger Woods, Lohan would "would benefit by converting to Christianity." (Hindus welcomed her embrace of the principle of karma and said she might benefit from their religion.)
She also might benefit from some originality.
Madonna did the crucifixion shtick in 2006, and earlier that year pop star Kanye West drew predictable criticisms for appearing as a tortured Jesus on the cover of Rolling Stone.
And in 2008 Lohan herself posed for a New York magazine spread recreating the famous series of nudes shot of Marilyn Monroe just six weeks before the star's death on Aug. 5, 1962.
Now that's heresy.
American skier Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey is considered to be the best female American skier in history. It is a shame that she has chosen to prostitute herself in the recent Sports Illustrated swim suit edition. On the cover, Lindsey has a bikini on (sort of) with the top off and her top mostly exposed!In the photos inside, she is in very provocative poses and shows almost all of her breasts and pulls down her bikini bottom to reveal almost all of her pelvic area!This is NOT sports, it is pornography!
The shame of it all is that this young woman has a promising future in sports but she is obviously letting others talk her into doing inappropriate things to enhance her career. The fact that she is married and doing virtually pornographic poses is disturbing. What kind of man would want to see his wife pose like this?
Pray for Tebow that he will say strong and do what God tells him to do no matter what it costs. Pray for women like Lohan and Vonn who think they have to prostitute themselves to the world to get the love and acceptance that God freely gives.
Please see the article about church burnings below pass this on.
Randy Stemock, M.S.
founder- PRA ( Protecting Rights of Americans)
Three Persons of Interest in Texas Church Fires
Friday, February 12, 2010
TYLER, Texas — Investigators have released sketches of three persons of interest in a string of Texas church fires.
Images of the three men were provided Friday at a Tyler news conference by Special Agent Robert Champion with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Two church fires Monday northwest of Tyler have been ruled arson. The fires damaged Dover Baptist Church and Clear Spring Missionary Baptist Church.
Those fires brought to nine the number of deliberately set east Texas church fires since Jan. 1. ATF says another church fire in Temple, about 120 miles south of Dallas, also was arson.
No injuries have been reported.
The images released Friday show one man with short hair and a flame-like tattoo on his neck, another short-haired man with a cross on his left forearm, and a third man with longer hair.
