The Super Bowl Kerfuffle

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The Super Bowl Kerfuffle

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Monday, February 1. 2010

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By J. Matt Barber

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"If you don't like it just turn off the TV!" goes the liberal mantra as all form of sexual perversion, obscenity and violence slinks unannounced into our living rooms. But when the message is perceived to undercut some carefully crafted left-wing narrative? Well, then not so much.

Fire-breathing feminists, liberal-media automatons and other "progressive" pro-aborts are anything if not predictable. They've once again concocted controversy where – to the emotionally stable among us – there is none.

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#1 Nene on 02/01/10 at 05:03 PM

I don't know Matt Barber, couldn't care less what anyone that has nothing to do with me thinks about this issue, but I do have a great respect for Tebow's mother and the choice she made. You would think that the pro-choice group would love that she had a choice and no one made her have an abortion.. I think Tebow is an awesome young man.. so glad that someone still stands for what they believe in... We saw Janet Jacksons nipple, surely we can stand a 30 second testimony of life...

#2 Concord Resident on 02/01/10 at 08:00 PM

If you "choose" life, or if you "choose" an abortion, you are "Pro-Choice".

Somehow the definition of pro-choice has become "Pro-Abortion". That's not what it means. It means you are in favor of having a choice, no matter what you choose.

#2.1 Anonymous on 02/02/10 at 06:50 AM

Then we should change the terminology to avoid further confusion.

You are either "Pro-Kill My Child" or
"Pro-Let My Child Live"

#3 David Rawlins on 02/03/10 at 10:26 AM

Religion aside. Let's look at abortion from a logical standpoint. It costs 50 cents for a condom (99% effective), $10 a month for "the pill" and let's just say a buck a shot for most other contraceptive devices. The average abortion cost $500 (Note I said average the range is $350 to well over $1000 depending on complications, etc).

Abortion at a minimum is economically stupid. I happen to believe that it is also morally questionable but I KNOW that my God has instructed me not to judge the choices of others but to guide them toward God and the right choices.

Tim Tebow is not telling you that you will "Burn in Hell" for having an abortion. He is simply offering you another choice. The choices that he offers involve taking a bit of responsibility and I think that is what upsets the left.

Now I also think that many on the right have gone way overboard in the fight to stop abortions. What some have done is equally wrong. "Thou shalt not kill" applies to all of us, not just pro-choice but pro-life as well.

If you are pro-life then you have to be pro-life for the abortion doctor as well.

#3.1 Anono on 02/03/10 at 12:37 PM

To raise a child to 18: $1,000,000. For the government to raise an unwanted child 2,000,000. For the penal system to raise an unwanted and improperly raised child until child is put to death 5,000,000. For all of u who judge abortion I bet u are all for the death sentence. It is the choice of the people involved and God will deal with them later.

#3.1.1 David Rawlins on 02/03/10 at 05:57 PM

The problem is people are told they only have two choices, raise the child or kill the child. There are literally lines of people waiting to adopt.

And if you can't tell the difference between the abortion of an innocent and the execution of a criminal, i'm surprised you understand how a computer works well enough to respond.

#4 Anono on 02/03/10 at 08:29 PM

So if I don't agree with you I am stupid. You are right there a lines of people out there waiting to adopt yet so many of them choose to adopt from other countries. What you should have stated is there are literally lines of people waiting to adopt as long as the children are pigmentally challenged or pretty close (Asian). And son I am sure I could show you something about how a computer works. You just turn it on and start typing.

#4.1 David Rawlins on 02/04/10 at 08:26 AM

1 - I'm not your son and don't want to be.
2 - I've been running computers since 1981 and by running them I mean creating applications for them so I doubt you could.
3 - Yes if you don't agree that there is a difference in killing an innocent child and a convicted killer then you are stupid.

#4.1.1 anon0 on 02/04/10 at 10:09 AM

What apps have you been "running" since 1981. Hurry up and look it up before you answer.

#4.1.1.1 David Rawlins on 02/04/10 at 01:56 PM

I don't run apps, I write them.

#5 cats on 02/04/10 at 05:41 AM

The only word I like in this fire-breathing lawyer's entire rant is "kefluffle".
So it's my choice to dismiss everything else this article throws at me and concentrate on my new favorite word.

#6 Concord Resident on 02/04/10 at 09:47 AM

Pro-Choice means you approve of the ability to choose.

Abortion
Keep the baby
Put the baby up for adoption

These are the choices. Be thankful for your ability to choose and no matter which it was, stop forcing your personal choice down everyone's throat. Why should you be able to choose what you want, but nobody else can make a different choice?

#6.1 David Rawlins on 02/04/10 at 02:08 PM

And this commercial that the "Pro-Choice" groups want pulled simply presents one of the choices.

The "Pro-Choice" groups are the ones that have defined that the only choice they support is abortion. Read the article.

They want the commercial pulled because it is "offensive" to them.

It is Tim Tebow's mother saying that the doctors told her to have an abortion and she CHOSE not too and carried Tim to term.

#6.1.1 Anono on 02/04/10 at 02:57 PM

If Tim's mother doctor's had told her to get an abortion they would have done something illegal. It was illegal to get an abortion in that country at the time of the "advise".

#7 Concord Resident on 02/10/10 at 12:03 PM

I saw the commercial and it was actually pretty silly. His mom talks about how she nearly "lost" him. No mention of abortion at all. Then Timmy tackles his mom and she scolds him.

A lot of kerfuffle about a little bit of nothing. But then, that's what most of the articles writtin by Mr. J. Matt Barber amount to.

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