Tim Tebow’s Controversial Super Bowl Ad Finds Big Support

Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad is still garnering its share of controversy, despite the fact that no one has seen it.

Currently, Americans United for Life Action, the first national pro-life organization on America, and LifeNews.com, a news source for the pro-life community, have more than 38,000 fans on their Facebook page, “Support Tebow’s Super Bowl Ad.”

As we reported the other day, the Internet has been all aflutter as of late over an ad featuring college football star, Tim Tebow. In the ad, which is being paid for by Focus on the Family, Tebow and his mother explain how he would have never been born if his mother (who was not in good health) had had an abortion.

The ad is to air on CBS during the Big Game, and a variety of factions are up in arms: everyone from pro choice groups to religiously inclined groups, like this one, who is angry because CBS once rejected an ad from the United Church of Christ. Parodies are even beginning to emerge.

Still, there are several groups, like Americans United for Life Action, rallying to keep the spot on the air in an attempt to maintain free speech. Fans are joining the group by the second — when I began writing this post there were around 37,800 members, now there are close to 38,500. The group is even asking fans to make like Tebow:

“AUL Action encourages you to make a short video about your own personal experience to share here on the Support Tebow’s Super Bowl Ad page. Just make your short video and upload it to this page. There’s a chance your video could be featured on the AUL Action blog and website.”

The fervor that this unseen ad has inspired is truly astonishing. Without even making it to the airwaves, it has already inspired so many to speak out on their respective viewpoints. Do you think CBS will pull the ad? What do you think the network should do?

Source Mashable.com

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Anti-Choice Tim Tebow Ad to Air During Superbowl

Focus on the Family will air a 30 second anti-choice ad featuring University of Florida football star Tim Tebow during the Superbowl. The ad will feature the story of how Tebow's mother chose against having an abortion during her complicated pregnancy contrary to her doctors advice, according to All Headline News.

The New York Times has stated that selling "issue ads" during the Superbowl is unprecedented. Previously, CBS has rejected requests for similar ads.

The ad will cost approximately $2.8 million. According to the New York Daily News, the funding came from "very generous and committed friends." However, Focus on the Family has shown signs of severe financial pressure for years. Focus on the Family has laid off staff a total of 6 times since 2005 and most recently laid off nearly 8 percent of staff in September 2009. The organization was also dealt a blow last week when founder James Dobson, who hosts a daily radio show with 1.5 million listeners, announced that he will leave the organization to start both a new organization and a new radio show, to be called "James Dobson on the Family," reported the New York Times.

Media Resources: All Headline News 1/17/10; New York Times 1/17/10, 1/20/10; Denver Post 9/2/09; New York Daily News 1/19/10

RadarOnline: Tiger Woods had gay romps, mistress to claim in new tell-all book

The Internet headline heard ‘round the world: “Tiger swings both ways?”

RadarOnline reports:

One of Tiger's many mistresses, Loredana Jolie Ferriolo, is penning a tell-all book about the golf ace and claims that she witnessed him in gay encounters.

RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively that Loredana has claimed she saw Tiger having sexual relationships with other men. That shocking twist is something no other mistress has claimed and there has been no proof.

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Zorn's long, sad vigil finally ends

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