Posted on 04/30/2013 7:12:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two sports stories made headlines yesterday: The New York Jets released openly Christian quarterback Tim Tebow, and NBA player Jason Collins came out of the closet, making him the first active, openly gay professional athlete in the four major U.S. sports (basketball, football, baseball and hockey).
It's not surprising to hear of Tebow's release; he rarely played for the Jets, was seldom used at all, and ended up being their third-string quarterback. I'm certainly no sports analyst, but it seems to me that he really wasn't given much of a chance in New York, especially considering that starting quarterback Mark Sanchez struggled for several games and was eventually benched.
I'd like to think Tebow's release had everything to do with his performance on the field (for the few minutes he did play) and not due to his "controversial" Christian beliefs. Call me conspiratorial, but I'm not entirely convinced that's the case.
Then we have the news that NBA player Jason Collins has announced he's gay. The mainstream media are, not surprisingly, gushing over him, even saying he's courageous for proclaiming his homosexuality to the world. But it appears that several NBA executives--speaking anonymously, of course--are far from certain that his career in the NBA will continue.
From ESPN.COM:
Of the first 14 teams reached by ESPN.com in an anonymous survey, six said they expect to see Jason Collins in the NBA next season in the wake of his revelation Monday that he is gay.
The other eight teams that expressed some measure of doubt all cited Collins' age and corresponding questions about his ability to make a productive on-court contribution as the overriding reason he wouldn't be able to find a job for his 13th season, not because of fallout from the announcement....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
With regard to the assertion that Jason “is just like Jackie Robinson”.
This would be true if Jackie Robinson had waited until he was a 36 year old free agent to tell the world he was Black.
“We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers” with these words the Apostle Paul said there is a war in the cosmos that has been waged since Lucifer fell from heaven. Tim Tebow is a out of the closet Christian, and the NBA player Collins is an out of the closet gay man.
It’s no coincidence that both made the news the same day.
Its part of our downward slide in moral relativism versus the moral imperitives of Scripture.
Freegards
LEX
Ditch the Christian, celebrate the homo...man what a country!
“OPENLY” Christian! I love it!
Frankly, I was TOT (Tired of Tebow) when he had a short run of wins (due to him not being new to the scene).
After defenses figured him out (3 games?) he was and is just another overpaid bench-warmer.
Marino needed Strock. Someone will need Tebow in the same role.
His exhortations are not new to the NFL (nor NBA nor MLB).
There are many of us who believe that your love of God is best served under a bushel. I won’t chastise Mr. Tebow but I do point out that his antics may not be glorifying the Lord but rather himself.
But that is just me.
Go Dubs!
Jason Collins: Celebrated sex pervert
This is the Evil before the world.
Yup. One gets denigrated and the other “rates” a call from king hussein. Of course king hussein may have only been calling to set up a date. “Owwww! Hot NBA player. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmmm!”
Gay = Job Security under Obama.
I miss the good ol’ days when an athlete’s on-field performance mattered more than his arrest record or who he chose to sleep with.
IMHO I believe the people behind the NFL or NY Jets took him there to not play him and ruin his career and all because he does his ne knee and prays.
On the other hand this homo turd poker who is hardly a big name player who is ending his playing days will write a book and use this crap to sell his book.
He stated he lived a lie , er well who told him to have sex with women and if he did then how can he be hard to have sex with women if he does not like them, then who the hell asked him all the time if he was a turd poker?
NO ONE
This idiots comes out and tells the country like we all care with all the other important issues that he is a turd poker and now what?
We have a media frenzy, the free loading wife of bozo tweeting how she has his back and well done bla bla
Surely beneath the dignity of the white house not that we can get in ou own house we pay for right now.
Then why does he feel the need like so many of them to tell us what he is in bed or on their cases the public bathroom?
Will it affect my life , no but debt, spending, Libya, fast and furious, etc will and yet the media pushed Tebow ut and makes this dope of a player a hero who will be used to sell his ass no pun intended to promote the turd poking strap on agenda.
Next we’ll see him playing no pun again with bozo at the white house while we pay for that house and cannot get in there
I'm gonna let it shine
This little light of mine,
I'm gonna let it shine
This little light of mine,
I'm gonna let it shine
Let it shine,
Let it shine,
Let it shine.
Hide it under a bushel? No!
I'm gonna let it shine
Hide it under a bushel? No!
I'm gonna let it shine
Hide it under a bushel? No!
I'm gonna let it shine
Let it shine,
Let it shine,
Let it shine.
could nto care if I was the only person left in the world about this sick twisted feces agenda.
It is wrong, unhealthy and unnatural.
A mans ass is for pushing out waste not having a penis put into it and then having the feces pushed back into him.
Sorry for being crude but it seems the only way to wake others up is to tell them the truth and not this happy go lucky guy who lived a life as a lie what ever that means as no one forced him ot have sex with women or no one asked him who he ahs sex with.
Now those players can think about the great times their team mate checked them out and then thought about them later that night the sick yuks
This would be true if Jackie Robinson had waited until he was a 36 year old free agent to tell the world he was Black.
You are right on target there (with the caveat that there was no free agency in baseball when Robinson's career was finished). That analogy is an insult to Robinson's legacy as well.
Didn't see that comparison in the posted article, so please tell me who was quoted as comparing Collins to Robinson.
I heard a pastor once say (and I agree with him), the most insulting thing a person can say to a Christian is “I didn’t know you were a Christan”.
Get out from under that bushel.
there is a soccer player and thousands of others who come onto the field around the world and make a cross sign with their arms on their chest.
One player gets on his knees before a game in the middle of the field, and starts praying.
No one has said a thing around the world except when it happens in America.
The player is Javier Hernandez and is a great soccer player who plays for Manchester united and from Mexico.
If anyone wants to see him on video there is his name.
So the firs lady tweets about how she has this homosexuals back but they force Tebow out because of his religion.
That is how twisted this country has become and it does nto happen anywhere in the world but here
“but I do point out that his antics may not be glorifying the Lord but rather himself.”
The word “antics” is the word that you chose to describe his works and his offering to the Lord. You are in effect, sitting in judgment of him.
It’s a most telling dichotomy, in regards to where the culture has gone. A vocal “Christian” gets vilified, where a vocal “homo” gets celebrated. Everything has become upside-down. What was once regarded as good, decent and moral is now looked down upon, while what was vile, indecent and immoral is now celebrated and praised to the hilt. That is America 2013 for you. I don’t see how such a society or such a country survives this in the long run.
I switched between 2 radio talk shows this a.m. and both were airing that quote.
I believe one was from a GMA interview w Jason.
Just go to any MSM outlet, you’ll find it there.
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