There's always something a little ridiculous about the most intense political debates. This is because as the intensity rises, so too does the self-righteousness, along with booming sermons about Right and Wrong and Good and Bad. But that's not even the ridiculous part.
Where it becomes truly crazy is that more often than not, the people shouting loudest make the least sense, often just outright lying. And really, there's nothing more bizarre than a sermon about moral righteousness from somebody that's not telling the truth.
Is that what's happening with Tim Tebow's controversial Super Bowl ad? Maybe. Courtesy of Radar Online, one lawyer's open letter to CBS makes some interesting points:
Is Tim Tebow’s Mom Telling The Truth?
The ad features the purported story of Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam Tebow, who was allegedly told by doctors to have an abortion. [...]
As the story is reported, Tim’s mother decides to take her pregnancy to term anyway, and give birth to Tim. ... An abortion at the time of Pam’s pregnancy was and still is illegal for both doctors and women in the Phillipenes, so here are my questions:
Does this commercial for mandatory motherhood contain corroboration that Pam’s doctors suggested she commit the crime of having an illegal abortion?
If the ad omits to state that abortion at that time and place was illegal, isn’t the ad in fact misleading?
Also, if the ad omits to state that Pam could have gone to prison for 2-6 years for having an illegal abortion there, isn’t that misleading?
If abortions were so illegal in the Philippines, how likely is it that doctors were urging Pam Tebow to get an abortion? Judge for yourself. And also consider that the lawyer writing that is just another person shouting loudest, so who knows? One thing’s for certain: if the Tebows were smart, they’d shoot an ad extolling the virtues of life and condemning people like Scott Roeder, who last week was convicted of murdering an abortion doctor in a church vestibule last year.
Not exactly “pro-life.” But then with these things, it’s always who shouts loudest, right?
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