Eyes On The Prize

by digby

So CBS is afraid of the wrath of Focus on the Family and has reversed its previous stance against controversial “issue” ads. It’s going to show a forced pregnancy advertisement starring born again football hero, Tim Tebow sponsored by James Dobson and the gang.

Women’s groups are up in arms and rightfully so. Tebow’s spot evidently discusses his mother’s choice not to have an abortion as proof that other women shouldn’t have the same choice. But if I were one of Tebow’s teammates I might be more concerned about his association with James Dobson who has some very funny ideas about how to keep your sons from “becoming” gay:

Meanwhile, the boy’s father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son’s maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.

Tebow’s dad is a conservative evangelical preacher and often talks about how little Timmy was a weakling who grew into a star athlete. I don’t know if he took him into the shower and showed him his big penis, but that seems to be the way these fellows make Real Men out of their boys. You have to wonder.

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