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Show me evidence that God doesn't exist.
That is akin to this...
Have you beaten the wife yet today?
Show me evidence that God doesn't exist.
A still large part of the country really DOES have a problem with being gay. Bryan Fischer must speak for someone, and he has equated being gay with the Hitler SS, muses that we should treat homosexuals like drug addicts, which means they convert or go to jail, there are evangelicals assisting foreign countries in passing legislation that makes being gay a crime punishable with jail time, and more. Whenever gay marriage is a topic, you'll hear comparisons of them to pedophiles, or people who like having sex with animals. I could go on, but the point is bigotry is still real and still a big and accepted attitude among large swaths of America. I live where being a anti-gay bigot is a good thing when you run for office.
We have come a long way.
I think the point went right over your head. Something can be immoral and legal at the same time
I thought Sam hurt his cause greatly on Saturday.
Bursting into tears is fine. And being there with his boyfriend was OK, too. We've seen these scenes with family, friends, and significant others play out over and over. I thought the goal was for this to be accepted like any other player being drafted, and it easily could have been, but unfortunately, it wasn't.
No, Sam and his main squeeze had to gay it up for the cameras in flamboyant style, complete with
a marriage-ready face cake-smush and sloppy mug-down for all the cameras to flash across America. Couldn't just celebrate being drafted like a typical football player. Thankfully, they cut the cameras before Sam bent Blondie over the table for a quickie.
If only the gay community would settle for just being gay. Nobody really cares or has a problem with that. We really don't. But it's stupid to "celebrate" that a man prefers sex with men instead of women, as if this requires some sort of aptitude or higher learning achievement. So he really likes screwing guys. Congratulations, I guess? This incessant need to be on stage waterboarding the country with gaydom 24/7 is borderline psychotic.
Bottom line is, this "acceptance" that seems so important has already been reached. Nobody cares that much. However, it's still damn awkward and funny, and it always will be. Jokes and laughs were shared across the U.S. Gay people are funny, unless you have a 6-year-old watching that you really weren't ready to have that conversation with.
If you want gay to be normal, then act normal about it. Be men, not staged actors in a bad Lifetime movie.
Sam, great person wonderful man.
Tebow, outcast.
Shows exactly where our nation is heading.
What did Tebow do first exactly? Was he the first Christian in the NFL? Was he the first white guy? Was he the first guy who put up gaudy numbers in college and disappointed in the NFL? Was he the first guy from the University of Florida? Maybe he's the first NFL player born in the Phillipines...but it's not like he's Filipino.
Drama.
That is akin to this...
Have you beaten the wife yet today?
What does that mean? You think being gay in America in 2014 has no downside? Do you know any gay people? Do you know any of them still disowned by their parents? Etc.
Sam, great person wonderful man.
Tebow, outcast.
Shows exactly where our nation is heading.
Criminalize gay jokes?????? Hahahahaha, yea that pesky first amendment is a downer.Yes, they should ban disownment of children for being gay. They should criminalize gay jokes altogether. They should pass a law that says it is illegal to consider being gay odd in any way. In fact, it should be required that half of all children be gay so it's fair.
What is it you want?
Being gay isn't normal. It's not illegal, but it's just odd. Always will be. With 7 billion people in the world, you get some mutated genes here and there. No biggie.
Look-at-me drama. That's what 95 percent of this is about.
No, he was the first white player to exalt God after scoring,
proclaim his virginity,
.do mission work in the off season
He made no bones about his Christianity and was proud of the person he felt it made him.
Also, how many NFL "busts" took a team to a play off win?
Unorthodox throwing motion? Yea, so what? He is a winner and a dedicated player.
Bull****
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ummm no not true
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they did that despite him playing, in fact how did they do without him?
Except he wasn't good.
What did Tebow do first exactly? Was he the first Christian in the NFL? Was he the first white guy? Was he the first guy who put up gaudy numbers in college and disappointed in the NFL? Was he the first guy from the University of Florida? Maybe he's the first NFL player born in the Phillipines...but it's not like he's Filipino.
No, he was just the first guy to get insulted, degraded, mocked, laughed out, and generally deingrated because he's a Christian.
No, he was just the first guy to get insulted, degraded, mocked, laughed out, and generally deingrated because he's a Christian.
No, he was the first white player to exalt God after scoring, proclaim his virginity, do mission work in the off season. He made no bones about his Christianity and was proud of the person he felt it made him.
But Warner had the whole back story. Grocery bagger to Super Bowl Champ. Tebow don't want to go to Arena or CFL, and I agree that is a mistake.No he wasn't. Kurt Warner regularly talked about his faith and made no bones about it. I don't think he proclaimed his virginity since he was married, but he wasn't shy about his faith, and he was proud of the person it made him.
Kurt Warner was also a better player than Tebow ever was. Tebow had the opportunity to play in the Arena league this year (Gene Simmons wanted him on the LA Kiss). If Tebow was anything like Warner, he'd be playing somewhere - Arena Football, CFL...and he'd have faith that his abilities would shine through and that he'd get another shot. Doug Flutie is another example, and probably closer to Tebow than Warner - looked great in college but was never really deemed to pan out in the NFL. He went to Canada, succeeded and got another shot in the NFL.
But Warner had the whole back story. Grocery bagger to Super Bowl Champ. Tebow don't want to go to Arena or CFL, and I agree that is a mistake.