Seriously, that was it? I kept expecting there to be a second one somewhere, but no.
Allie Martin – OneNewsNow -
Viewers primed for controversy over a Christian ministry’s Super Bowl ad featuring football star Tim Tebow might be asking, “Is that all there is?”
Focus on the Family revealed beforehand that the ad would feature Tebow and his mother, Pam, who gave birth to him in 1987 after rejecting a doctor’s advice to have an abortion for medical reasons. But if abortion rights groups hadn’t protested, you might never have known what the ad was about.
The closest it comes to mentioning abortion is when Pam Tebow says, “I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn’t make it into this world. I can remember so many times when I almost lost him.” Tim Tebow then bursts in and tackles his mom, who responds that she’s tougher than he is.
Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, says the ad opened a “national conversation” about abortion. “We’re grateful for the opportunity for a pro-life message to find its way into the Super Bowl [ad lineup], and it was clearly a bright spot in the evening,” says Nance. “Concerned Women for America’s half-million members welcomed the opportunity to have the national discussion.
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listen to my podcast from last week!! Come to think of it, looking at Washington DC, maybe Hell has frozen over!
Regular Ruth readers already know about Pat Fagan’s article about the pernicious effects of pornography. Now, Legionary Father John Flynn summarizes his report.
The impact on wives increases when the husbands become addicted to porn. One study cited by Fagan revealed that 40% of such sex addicts lose their spouses. There has not been a lot of research on the relationship between pornography and divorce, but he reported that one study of reports by divorce lawyers found that 68% of divorce cases involved one party meeting a new love interest over the Internet, and 56% involved one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic Web sites. …
Fagan described how the viewing of pornography by teenagers disorients them during the developmental phase when they are learning how to handle their sexuality and when they are most vulnerable to uncertainty about their sexual beliefs and moral values.
One study of adolescents found that sexually explicit Internet material significantly increased their uncertainties about sexuality. Another study found that adolescents exposed to high levels of pornography had lower levels of sexual self-esteem.
There is also a significant relationship between frequent pornography use and feelings of loneliness, including major depression.
High adolescent consumption of pornography is linked to significantly increased sexual intercourse with non-romantic friends and can be a significant factor in teenage pregnancy.
Our students have shared stories about the negative impact of pornography on their lives. They corroborate Dr. Fagan’s report.
Read the whole story here.
I just saw the (a?) Tim Tebow ad on the SuperBowl. What the heck is teh big deal? There was nothing there about abortion. You would have to know the back-=story to have a clue that that’s what they were talking about. NOW needs to get a life. But then, they have needed a life for some time…
Regular Ruth Readers know that I have been supportive of the students of the Princeton University Anscombe Society, and their efforts to obtain a center to support abstinence and chastity on campus. Their efforts have been smacked down by the University adminstration, for a variety of extremely lame reasons. But now, the Christian Union, housed at Princeton, reports that the University’s refusal to support the students who value sexual integrity is nothing short of hypocrisy. They claim that they want to remain neutral and not impose or even propose values to students, so they couldn’t possibly support an abstinence center on campus, to go along with the Women’s Center and the LGBT Center. But now, the mask is off entirely: the University supported events that quite obviously promote non-abstinence, non-monogamy. I can’t make this up. Read more…
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