Tebow Exposes the Left’s Religious Bigotry
Peter Heck at One News Now makes this observation about the incessant liberal vitriol directed at Tim Tebow:
Heck is right on target, but there's more to it than mere Christianity. I'd add another flavor of bigotry to Heck's mix, and that's racism.
About twenty years ago, it became (and remains) fashionable for wide receivers and running backs who find their way into the end zone, to make the sign of the cross, often done while genuflecting exactly as Tebow does. All the players who started this, and virtually all who continue to do it, are black; yet we've never heard a peep from the liberals who now demean Tebow for his displays of piety.
So to the bigotry of vilifying someone simply because of his beliefs, we can add the bigotry of doing it to one man but not another, based entirely on the color of his skin.
For years, liberals have publicly denounced the disagreement and moral disapproval conservatives have articulated towards various belief systems as "irrational hatred." That's why this Tebow situation offers a teachable moment that conservatives should not let pass by. While resisting the urge to condone and embrace destructive beliefs and behavior is not irrational nor hateful, impugning millions of faithful Christians by suggesting that they will torch mosques and exile immigrants just because a football player leads his team to victory is both.
What causes it? Given that Tebow has preached no sermon, written no scathing op-ed blasting the practice of abortion, taken no public stand on the issue of gay marriage nor endorsed the eventual presidential nominee of the Republican Party, the only plausible explanation for such absurdity is that he dares to boldly utter the name of Christ, unreserved and unashamed. If that be not bigotry, the word has no meaning.
If liberals want a real reason to despise Tim Tebow, it should be because his mere presence in the national spotlight has pulled the veil off of their seething and self-evident anti-Christian bigotry.
Heck is right on target, but there's more to it than mere Christianity. I'd add another flavor of bigotry to Heck's mix, and that's racism.
About twenty years ago, it became (and remains) fashionable for wide receivers and running backs who find their way into the end zone, to make the sign of the cross, often done while genuflecting exactly as Tebow does. All the players who started this, and virtually all who continue to do it, are black; yet we've never heard a peep from the liberals who now demean Tebow for his displays of piety.
So to the bigotry of vilifying someone simply because of his beliefs, we can add the bigotry of doing it to one man but not another, based entirely on the color of his skin.
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