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Not all morality is political
Q: The conservative Christian group Focus on the Family is sponsoring a pro-life ad, featuring football star Tim Tebow, during Sunday's Super Bowl. Should CBS show the ad? Should CBS allow other faith-based groups to buy Super Bowl ads promoting their beliefs on social issues? Is a major sporting event, or a TV ad campaign, an appropriate venue for discussing such vital and divisive culture-war issues like abortion?
CBS should absolutely show the thirty-second spot from Focus on the Family and Tim Tebow. While I have yet to see the ad, I am confident that it will be a tasteful, positive affirmation of life and of family.
Focus on the Family's spokesperson, Gary Schneeberger, said the ad's goal "is to...help folks who are watching come to us if they're struggling in their marriage or struggling raising their children."
As Focus on the Family has said in its statement, clearly the intent of this ad is not to wage a new battle culture war, but rather to let people know that as they wrestle with these difficult life and death decisions like the one Pam Tebow had to wrestle with so many years ago, they don't have to wrestle alone. Others are calling the ad too political. I disagree. While the political always involves morality, not all morality is political. It's not political for Christians to affirm things that matter to them.
Sadly, you could almost predict this was going to happen. Here's a young man telling his own life experience, showing the beauty of a life well-lived. And the only way critics can attack that is to stereotype it as "political," and dismiss it. Thankfully, CBS executives, so far at least, are standing by their decision to air the ad.
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Charles "Chuck" Colson
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February 2, 2010; 4:19 PM ET
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Posted by: Publ1us | February 8, 2010 9:17 AM
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What's up with asking a convicted conman with no theological or ethical training a question like this? How absurd.
Posted by: tlusk58 | February 8, 2010 12:42 AM
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Chuck, indulge me while I quote you as heard on a taped conversation you had with Richard Nixon on the subject of abortion:
Richard Nixon: "There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white."
Chuck Colson: "Or rape"
I'd like to know two things. First, why did you agree with Nixon that mixed 'race' children should be aborted? Second, does this have anything to do with your ideas on what constitutes, as you put it above, "...a tasteful, positive affirmation of life and of family?"
I hadn't thought that performing abortions on the basis of 'race' was the foundation for "a positive affirmation of life and family", so perhaps you could explain that further. And if you've changed your mind on the subject, what led you to do so? Was there some point where you just woke up and realized "Hey, maybe we shouldn't be aborting children on the basis of race"?
And what made you think of rape, anyway?
[You can find one of the many articles on our friend Chuck's support for aborting the children of parents with different 'races' here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/jun/24/richard-nixon-tapes-abortion
You can listen to his conversation with Richard Nixon here:
http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/tape407/407-018.mp3
For more of Mr. Colson's musings on the importance of morality in today's society, you can view his website at http://www.breakpoint.org/bp-home]
Posted by: Chapel_Hill_Science | February 6, 2010 4:43 PM
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fr the article:
>...CBS should absolutely show the thirty-second spot from Focus on the Family and Tim Tebow. While I have yet to see the ad, I am confident that it will be a tasteful, positive affirmation of life and of family....
Mr. Colson: The fotf CULT has absolutely NO idea of what really constitutes a "tasteful, positive affirmation of life and of family". This CULT is virulently anti-gay and anti-choice, and needs to be investigated as the CULT it is. Don't allow the fotf CULT to pull the wool over your eyes.
Posted by: Alex511 | February 5, 2010 12:54 PM
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And Yes, Mr doty, you seem to have an agenda.
what is it, i wonder?
Posted by: Counterww | February 5, 2010 11:09 AM
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Colson is an ex-con and he has NO formal theological education. But, he claims to be an expert on everything in the Bible. Focus On the Family (FOF) is an anti-gay organization and it even has had so-called ex-gays on staff as human sexuality experts. One of them got caught in a gay bar in Washington DC. John Paulk lied to James Dobson at first and just claimed he went into Mr. P's to use the restroom and didn't know it was a gay bar. If a person had not shown up with a camera, Paulk might have left with a gay man to go elsewere. He was in that bar for 45 minutes. Paulk has since left and has a catering business now. He is married to an "ex-lesbian" and it seems obvious that he has gay men on his staff.
Posted by: joe_allen_doty | February 4, 2010 12:34 PM
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Hey folks, Mr. Colson converted after the Nixon affair and has spent many years working in the prison system for the lowest of the low. Do something half as selfless, and then I will consider your ad hominem attacks.