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Madeleine Cuff
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 April 2012 15.51 EDT
A crowd of about 15,000 gathered on Sunday in a Texas megachurch to hear NFL player Tim Tebow speak at its outdoor Easter Sunday service.
The New York Jets backup quarterback addressed the gathering at the Celebration church in Georgetown, 20 miles north of Austin, at its "Easter on the hill" service.
"It's OK to be outspoken about your faith,'' Tebow said.
Asked what he thought needed to change culturally in America, he said, to applause: "First and foremost [it] is what this country was based on: one nation under God. The more that we can get back to that [the better]."
Tebow's appearance had generated much excitement in the Christian press, but Joe Champion, pastor of the Texan church which organises Easter on the hill, insisted the event was not about celebrity. "There will be the sacredness of Easter," he told local reporters. "It's not a Tim Tebow show. There's really only one celebrity that we are going to honour and highlight."
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