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via AlterNet:



Focus on the Family Purchases Air Time During the Super Bowl to Push Their Anti-Choice Message

Posted by Jodi Jacobson, RH Reality Check at 3:00 PM on January 19, 2010.

The organization has reportedly hired Tim Tebow, a Heisman-winning college quarterback, to sling their fundamentalist message.




Using the same "what-if-you-abort-a-future president" meme deployed during the 2008 Presidential campaign, Focus on the Family is purchasing time to air an ad during the Superbowl featuring Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother Pam.

According to the Huffington Post, the Tebows will share a personal story centering on the theme "Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life."

The group isn't releasing details, but the commercial is likely to be an anti-abortion message chronicling Pam Tebow's 1987 pregnancy. After getting sick during a mission trip to the Philippines, she ignored a recommendation by doctors to abort her fifth child and gave birth to Tim.

Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, said the commercial comes at a time when "families need to be inspired."

"Tim and Pam share our respect for life and our passion for helping families thrive," Daly said. "Focus on the Family is about ... strengthening families by empowering them with the tools they need to live lives rooted in morals and values."

Thirty-second commercials during the Super Bowl are selling for between $2.5 million and $2.8 million. Daly said all the funds for the ad came from a handful of "very generous and committed friends," and that no money from the group's general fund was used.

Tebow, the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner, ended his college career this month with several NCAA, Southeastern Conference and school records, and two national championships. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/145271/focus_on_the_family_purchases_air_time_during_the_super_bowl_to_push_their_anti-choice_message/

[sakabatou]

1. Ugh

:puke:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Look at the bright side.

This will be Tebow's first and last Super Bowl appearance.

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3. True that.

He'll go the way of Ryan Leaf.

[KamaAina]

9. Unless he's holding a clipboard on the sidelines

as the third-string QB for a team that makes it. :P

[wtbymark]

4. That'll be my que to hit the jon and grab a beer lol

[Ikonoklast]

5. All that commercial will do is waste their money.

Not one person will change their stance because of it.

I hope they spent all the diminishing resources of FoF on this.

[physioex]

7. That's right.....

You might as well try and change the opinion of a brick wall. Its who we elect to write the laws that is of concern.

[Dinger]

6. roger goodell (A) is a puke

donated to chimpy.

[Missy Vixen]

8. Why is this allowed to broadcast, when other "advocacy" ads are quickly dispensed with?

Then again, this will be the closest Tebow will EVER get to the Super Bowl.

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