Thursday, January 28, 2010

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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