Recently, New York Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow pulled out of a scheduled appearance at Robert Jeffress’ megachurch “due to new information” he received regarding Jeffress’ view. While he never specified what the “new information” was, Tebow was almost certainly referring to Jeffress’ virulent attacks on gays and lesbians, Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, Islam and President Obama.
Tim Tebow
Yet just weeks after withdrawing from speaking at Jeffress’s church, Tebow is now set to address Liberty University later this month at a conference geared towards men’s issues in a speech that is closed to the public.
The school was founded by the late televangelist Jerry Falwell — it is now run by his son — who has blamed gays and liberals for the September 11 attacks, supported racist laws in the U.S. and abroad and attacked the Teletubbies for “modeling the gay life style.”
Liberty University bans gay students and shut down its College Democrats chapter over the party’s views on gay rights. The university has hosted multiple anti-gay conferences and their law school is being sued over its alleged role in helping Lisa Miller disobey a court order and kidnap her daughter to Central America in order to avoid transferring custody to the girl’s other mother, her former partner.
Liberty University’s Vice President and law school dean Mathew Staver has defended the criminalization of homosexuality in Malawi, promoted the dangerous ex-gay therapy and warned that President Obama supports “forced homosexuality.” Furthermore, Staver has claimed that gay rights laws are part of an Antichrist spirit that lead to crime, child molestation and death, along with the destruction of America.
Staver’s fellow Liberty University dean Matt Barber has defended a Nigerian law outlawing homosexual relationships, described the gay rights movement as “Satanic,” claimed that gay youth who committed suicide took their own lives because they “know what they are doing is unnatural,” accused gay rights advocates of supporting pedophilia (along with fascism and Communism) and defined homosexuality as “one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it ‘love.’”
He has also maintained that liberals are like Baal worshippers who hate God and are working with Islamists to destroy Christianity and that Obama should be impeached for backing same-sex domestic partner benefits.
Another professor, Rena Lindevaldsen, has claimed that Satan makes people gay and is behind the LGBT rights movement .
If Jeffress’ anti-gay remarks were too extreme for Tebow, they pale in comparison to the things regularly said by representatives of Liberty University.
Perhaps it is time for Tebow to take another look at some of this “new information” about Liberty.
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Haters gonna hate.
doesn’t he have a football field to pose at?
Okay, let him speak where he pleases, just don’t support his team or buy his or his team’s crap.
Timbow, get with the program.
Febow Tucks!
He’s a LOSER….. but we knew that already.
You know what “they” say about homophobes……
Who?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201106/homophobic-men-most-aroused-gay-male-porn
he addressed my alma matter Cincinnati Christian University… the dude isn’t going to end up being an ally… unless he’s in the closet and we just haven’t seen that side of him yet.
Well damn! Timmy should just stick with throwing a football and running up and down a field.
Who’s still paying attention to this f*cker?
hes a sucky football player and hes a piece of shizz human being. i refuse to give this fairy queen any further publicity
see why he’s not in Colorado, people like him will get their day in Hell
His insincere knee drop is shameful and not a great player.
If Timbow was truly a decent person, and cared about youth, he wouldn’t have refused to do the video for IT GETS BETTER.
Why are we paying any attention to this bigot. I guess he has the right to be a hateful religious ass hole if he wants to be. After all God helps he make touch downs or what ever it is he does with his pathetic life.
This is all by a guy who runs around in tights that show off his most masculine parts, and then during and after the game is seen slapping men on their asses…
Didn’t he learn anything from the LAST TIME?
Oh just imagine my surprise…
May the stud will do the same thing that he did at the OTHER hater-school!
Tebow can do whatever he wants. He shouldn’t be surprised when people refer to him as a bigot if he’s going to keep bigoted company.
Im sensing a theme!
Beware. He’s being groomed for politics, and his handlers chose a more “mainstream” evangelical venue. All for show, but this choice of ‘Christian Taliban Lite’ isn’t gonna fly, either. Phobes are phobes.
So sad since Liberty has many gay graduates – Too bad they don’t step up and demand tolerance.
Tebow is a bigoted piece of shit and his mother is a whore.