The Super Bowl ad with a pro-life message featuring Tim Tebow and his Mom has created quite a stir. Terry O’Neill of the National Organization for Women made this comment about the ad:
That’s not being respectful of other people’s lives. It is offensive to hold one way out as being a superior way over everybody else’s.
Not respectful of other people’s lives…I guess abortion is supposed to be respectful of other people’s lives. That depends on whether you are an unborn baby. Sounds to me like Mrs. Tebow had respect for another person’s life when she opted to give birth to Tim instead of snuffing out his life in the womb.
Offensive to hold one way out as being a superior way over everybody else’s…Let’s see, if we follow that logic, don’t we have a moral and ethical free-for-all where everyone decides for themselves what is right or wrong? Doesn’t society already make some moral judgments which consider some choices as superior to other choices? Don’t we have laws that state that not raping someone is superior to raping them? Or not murdering someone is superior to murdering them? There are some issues in which tolerance is no virtue but the greatest of sins.
It seems blindly hypocritical for the president of NOW to say that the Tebow ad is not respectful of other people’s lives. As President Reagan once said, “It’s funny how all those who favor abortion have already been born.”
