When it was first announced that the group Focus on the Family had bought an ad to appear in the Super Bowl, and that it would feature football star Tim Tebow and his mother, you would have thought they had announced some kind of apocalyptic event. The immediate reaction was vitriolic outrage! It came SPURTING forth from the National Organization for Women and other like-minded, pro-abortion groups. They all condemned CBS for even considering airing such an ad, much less approving it.
Now (pardon the pun), the fact that not one of these groups had even seen the ad, or read the script, was totally irrelevant. If it came from Focus on the Family and promoted family values, it must be bad, and certainly nothing that NOW would agree with. So pathetic!
Here is a group that purports to be an advocate for women, and continues to scream for equal rights and the freedom to be heard, screaming louder than ever that anyone who disagrees with them does not have the right to be heard. Rather hypocritical, don’t you think? It’s OK for me to voice my opinion, but don’t you dare express yours.
It seems in recent years, instead of truly being an advocate for ending discrimination against women, NOW has become solely a voice for pro-abortion. And VIOLENT opposition to ANY voice that dares speak to the sanctity of life. Anyone who may be considered pro-life, it seems, is now the arch-enemy of NOW.
Time passes…outrage is expressed… and then… the commercial actually airs. What was all of the screaming about? Don’t know. The word abortion was never used… no anger was ever vented toward anyone who supports pro-choice… and all that truly came across was the expressed love between a mother and her son.
Now (once again, pardon the pun), the response of NOW President, Terry O’Neill was truly amazing. She only saw it as advocating violence against women! Can you believe it? Was she viewing the same ad that the rest of us were watching. Did she miss the humor… the love… the affirmation of family?
Anytime you let ideology overcome common sense, it is safe to say that you have totally lost touch with reality. Wake up, Terry! The real world is passing you by.
