So the ad Tebow is doing during the Super Bowl is a pro-life/anti-choice ad.

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From Greg Cote of the Miami Herald:

TIM TEBOW WANTS YOU TO HAVE THAT CHILD, DAMMIT!: (Whether you want to or not!) Granted, the law indicates pregnant women may choose for themselves regarding their bodies and whether to have a legal abortion. But Tebow and his mother, Pam, have teamed with conservative group Focus On The Family for a pro-life/anti-choice ad that will air during the Super Bowl. What's interesting is CBS-TV has a policy prohibiting "advocacy ads" that take sides in fractious political issues such as this. Since CBS is allowing an anti-abortion ad, would it also allow, say, an anti-gay marriage ad during the Super Bowl?

(Focus On The Family is anti-gay marriage, too, unless that went without saying). I have no problem with pro-lifers (except of course their extreme, lunatic fringe who scream "Murder!" and think killing doctors who perform abortions is justifiable). I sometimes wish pro-lifers had that same tolerance for the other side, but that's another story. But I also believe religion and this choice are personal, private things. CBS is wrong to violate its own policy by airing an advocacy ad on this topic. CBS would be wrong if it were airing a pro-life ad, too.

The network is star-struck by Tebow or mesmerized by the $2.8 million being paid for the 30-second spot. The ad will be jarring, especially in the context of all the funny, talking-donkey ads. Also the ad will upset more people than it pleases, if we are to believe opinion polls on this issue. There is a place for rigorous political debate, but during the Super Bowl? It'd be like you throwing a big Super Bowl party and one of your guests shows up on a bullhorn railing against the evils of drinking. Out of place, man! Call this a mistake by CBS. And the first fumble of Tebow's professional career.
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[1gobluedem]

1. Well, since he's been given a pass by the media on hawking his beliefs thus far

I'm sure Saint Timothy thinks he'll be embraced for this too.

[Auggie]

2. Now I know when my bathroom break is

[joeybee12]

3. TIVO!

Yeah, especially if evil Bret makes it because I will then only then watch it delayed if they LOSE!

[BlueInMass]

4. Big deal

The problem isn't that Tim Tebow hawks his beliefs, it is that people actually listen to him. Hasn't it been proven time and time again that celebrities in general, whether athletes, actors, musicians, etc., actually have very little reality in their own life and are woefully ignorant of what the reality is in most of their points of view?

They are the true definition of the Sunday morning quarterback. They discuss current events while going through their own lives largely uneffected by the real world.

[Onceuponalife]

5. The mere existence of this Tebow schmuck should make everyone

pro-abortion (oh, if only it could be performed retroactively).

I'm sure Timmy just cried and threw a tantrum until CBS agreed to air the ad.

[El Supremo]

6. His mother almost did abort him.

So look for some stupid statement that if he had been aborted, then someone else would have won the Heisman.
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Darren McFadden of Arkansas would have.

[Onceuponalife]

7. Who the hell convinced her not to, damnit!!