Controversial Axe ball-washing commercial intrudes on web story about Tebow's dad
Sep 22, 2010, 1:00 PM EDT
So Bob Tebow — Tim Tebow’s dad — is a is a full-time Christian missionary, that you probably knew. He and his wife, Pam, are currently visiting more than 3,500 U.S. schools to “share their work and encourage students to gather for 30 minutes around their schools’ flagpoles before classes start to engage in prayer.”
That’s according the story on the CBS-4 TV, Denver web site today. But we’ll get back to the separation of church and state in a moment. First, I find this amusing: when reading the CBS-4 story, when one runs his cursor over the third-to-last last paragraph of the text (click on the word “football”), this commercial pops up:
Marv Albert: “NOT what Jesus had in mind!”
Then, below the video, this text:
“(Tim is) very passionate about football but he’s really tried to focus his life on eternal things, and eternal things are people and God and his work,” Bob said. “We wanted to concentrate on character development and on the Bible.”
Bob and his wife, Pam, are currently visiting more than 3,500 schools across the country to share their work and encourage students to gather for 30 minutes around their schools’ flagpoles before classes start to engage in prayer.
We showed you the controversial Axe commercial a couple of weeks ago, so that’s old news. But placing it square in the middle of a story about Bob Tebow talking to schoolkids about Jesus, that’s something new.
As for getting kids to gather ’round the flag pole each morning to praise Jesus? Tough sell, Bob. You know that teachers and school administrators can’t lead prayers on public school grounds, right? So what you have left is what we did when I was a kid … gather around the flagpole to salute whosever pants were flying that morning.
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Tebow’s father speaks at Castle Rock Church [CBS4 Denver]
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- Paul in KY - Sep 23, 2010 at 10:34 AM
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There is nothing in any law/directive that prevents anyone from praying on school grounds. It’s just ‘school/teacher/student directed and/or mandated prayer’ that is verboten (at public schools).
I used to pray all the time at school (hope girl says yes when I ask her out, hope I don’t get beaten up by some random asshole, hope I do well on this test, etc.)
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