The Church Where Tim Tebow Will Speak Is Very, Very Antigay [View all]

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The outspoken New York Jet has previously shot an anti-abortion commercial for Focus on the Family and is now joining forces with an extremely antigay Texas pastor.

BY LUCAS GRINDLEY FEBRUARY 17 2013 4:22 PM ET


New York Jet Tim Tebow, Pastor Robert Jeffress

NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is set to be a guest at a Dallas megachurch with a vehemently antigay pastor. And we really do mean, vehemently.

Tebow, of the New York Jets, is listed as a "special guest" on April 28 on a website for the First Baptist Church. The church is well known in the city and elsewhere for its antigay pastor, Robert Jeffress. Here are a few of his anti-gayest hits starting as long ago as 1998 and continuing in recent months:

- In 1998, Jeffress checked out all the books from a Wichita Falls library that were inclusive of gay parents and promised never to return them. His protest led to many more copies of Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy's Roommate being donated to the library, and a waiting list formed just to check them out.

- Jeffress gave a two-part sermon in July 2007 called "Homosexuality Is a Perversion." In it, he complained that "homosexuality is being crammed down our throats" by activists who are using "brainwashing techniques." To help his congregation stay vigilant, he listed the supposed techniques in their Sunday program. Listen to an excerpt below.

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