Only A Tiny Minority Oppose Bad Bunny Performing At The Super Bowl

The chart above reflects the results of the Quinnipiac University Poll -- done between October 16th and 20th of a nationwide sample of 1,519 adults, with a 3.3 point margin of error.
 

Most Like The Super Bowl More Than Valentine's Day

 

The chart above is from the Marist Poll -- done between January 29th and February 1st of a national sample of 1,582 adults, with a 3.4 point margin of error.

Is The Tebow Super Bowl Ad A Lie ?

As you may already know, James Dobson's old group of ultra-right-wing fundamentalists, Focus on the Family, has spent millions of dollars to show two advertisements during the Super Bowl. The ads will show Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, and will relate how she chose to go ahead and have him even though it supposedly endangered her life.

According to the story told by the Tebows, Mrs. Tebow and her husband were missionaries in the Philippines when she became pregnant with the future Florida quarterback. They say the pregnancy caused medical problems for Mrs. Tebow, and a Philippines doctor recommended she have an abortion. She refused, and everything turned out all right.

It's bad enough that these fundamentalist christians seem to be urging women who need a medically necessary abortion to save their lives, to ignore the advice of their doctors and put their lives at risk. Indeed this religious and political advice could (and probably will) actually cause the death of some misguided young women. These fundamentalists don't seem to mind killing off a few thousand women as long as they can force their religious viewpoint on millions of others.

But now we find that the story told by the "christian" Tebows may not even be true. The fact is that abortion has been illegal in the Philippines since 1930. There are no exceptions to this law -- not even to save the life of the mother. Any doctor caught performing an abortion would have received at least a six-year prison sentence (and six years in a Philippine prison can seem like a lifetime). It is extremely doubtful that any doctor in that country would have recommended an abortion, let alone performed one.

I don't doubt the right of Focus on the Family to buy TV ads to further their reprehensible point of view, but I think CBS needs to investigate and see whether the ad they will be airing is truthful or just a big lie. If it is a lie, then it should not be aired at all. Famous attorney Gloria Allred says she will lodge complaints with the FCC and the FTC "if this ad airs and fails to disclose that abortions were illegal at the time Mrs. Tebow made her choice."

Like everyone else, the fundamentalists have the right to forward their point of view thanks to our secular free speech rights. But they don't have the right to make up their own facts and tell lies to do it.

'Focus On The Family' Buys Super Bowl Ads

In the past, CBS has had a policy of not accepting so-called "advocacy ads" for it's Super Bowl telecasts. They have turned down ads from organizations such as PETA and MoveOn.org. Evidently, that policy has been changed.

They are either having trouble selling the Super Bowl ads because of the recession, or the big wheels at the network are religious fundamentalists, because they have sold two ads to the ultra-right-wing fundamentalist group Focus on the Family. The group, which laid off 275 workers last year because of dwindling donations, has now come up with over $5 million to pay for two 30-second spots during the Super Bowl.

The ads will feature ex-Florida quarterback Tim Tebow (pictured) and his mother. The group wouldn't say exactly what the ads would be about, but it supposedly will involve sharing "one of their many positive personal stories" about their fundamentalist beliefs.

I had originally hoped to watch the Cowboys in the Super Bowl, but it looks like their loss to the Vikings was a blessing in disguise. Now I won't have to be subjected to these inane and ridiculous ads.