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NBC Sports headline: Tim Tebow to speak at virulently anti-gay, anti-Semitic Dallas megachurch

At first glance and based on that title, you might wonder if Tebow is speaking at some Dallas version of the ‘God hates fags’ church that protests at the funerals of soldiers. After all, that title sounds pretty hateful.

But no, it’s not that church. In fact, when I saw which megachurch he was speaking at I knew the whole article was one big smear. No, the megachurch is the one where Robert Jeffress is the pastor. Remember him? He’s the one who endorsed Rick Perry last election cycle and stepped in a big media puddle when he said Mormonism is a theological cult. Yeah, you remember. We covered it here fairly extensively.

Funny though, I don’t remember Jeffress being anti-gay or anti-Semitic. In fact, he’s an evangelical Christian and for him to be hate-filled would simply be un-Christ-like.

Here’s the smear, a huffpo quote inside the NBC Sports article:

In October 2011, Jeffress endorsed Texas Governor Rick Perry for president, then went on to claim that Islam, Mormonism and Judaism are heretical religions “from the pit of hell.”

On the eve of the presidential election in November 2012, Jeffress warned his Dallas congregation that President Barack Obama’s re-election would “lead to the rise of the Antichrist,” according to The Christian Post.

Jeffress also gained notoriety for his statements about the gay community. According to ThinkProgress, during the same speech where he endorsed Rick Perry in 2011, Jeffress told a crowd at the high-profile Values Voters Summit that gays should not be allowed in the military because “Seventy percent of the gay population” has AIDS.

OK first, Jeffress only said Islam and Mormonism are heresies “from the pit of hell”. He’s careful not to include Judaism in that refrain. No, all he says about Judaism is that you can’t be saved by being a Jew and that the three greatest Jews in the New Testament, Peter, Paul, and Jesus Christ all said that. Here’s the proof:

What’s amazing is not only do they misquote him, they then make the absurd claim that Jeffress is anti-Semitic based only on that quote. How is believing that Jews are not saved, that apart from the blood of Jesus Christ no Jew will enter the kingdom of Heaven – how is that anti-Semitic? Do they even understand what anti-Semitism is? Seriously, these people beclown themselves with their ignorance.

OK, let’s move on to the anti-gay smear. They accuse Jeffress of being anti-gay because he said “that gays should not be allowed in the military because “Seventy percent of the gay population” has AIDS.” This is partly true, but it doesn’t earn him being anti-gay. Here’s what he said:

To start off Jeffress actually misquoted Matt Foreman, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Jeffress said, quoting Foreman, that 70 percent of the gay population have AIDS, that it’s primarily a gay disease and suggested that was a good reason for keeping the tradition of not having gays in the military. Obviously Jeffress believed that keeping AIDS out of the military was a good thing based on that statistic.

But according to CNS News, in 2008 Matt Foreman said “Folks, with 70 percent of the people in this country living with HIV being gay or bi (sexual), we cannot deny that HIV is a gay disease.” Ah. So instead of 70 percent of the gay population, Jeffress meant should have said 70 percent of the people who have AIDS are gay. Think Progress called this a blatant falsehood by Jeffress, but then they aren’t in the business of giving conservatives the benefit of the doubt even when Jeffress was clearly quoting someone else.

But again, how does this make Jeffress anti-gay? Did you hear what he said right before this question about gays in the military in the video?

“I think all of us are grateful for any man or woman who serves in our military, regardless of their sexual orientation.”

Whoa Skippy! Slow down with the hatred for gays! OK, maybe not hatred – in fact no hatred at all. No, he’s showing gratitude for gays and straight members of our military for serving our country.

So once again a full blown smear by Think Progress, Huffpo, and now NBC Sports.

So on to Tim Tebow. The author of this NBC Sports article, Rick Chandler, while not doing his own research on the anti-gay and anti-Semitic claims in his own article, then accuses Tim Tebow of not doing his research before speaking at this ‘hateful’ church. Oh the irony!

And on top of that, the inference is that Tim Tebow may be anti-gay and anti-Semitic as well because he’s speaking at this church. The author clearly doesn’t want to go there, though, so he just accuses him of not Googling the megachurch:

Is Tebow’s appearance at First Baptist Dallas an ipso facto endorsement of Jeffress’ views? Not necessarily — he could be there to debate him. Or perhaps it’s a secular arts & crafts presentation. Look, work with me here, OK?

I prefer to think of Tebow as someone who saw the word “megachurch” and got excited about speaking to a lot of like-minded people, and just forgot to do his due diligence on the guy in charge. Remember Tim, Google can be your friend.

The alternative is too sad to contemplate right now.

Mr. Chandler, Google can be your friend too. Perhaps you should do your own due diligence before writing your next article and showing what an incompetent author you really are. And yes, I’m being nice.




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74 comments
jerry
jerry

Every church is anti - gay duh!! This politically correct bs has got to stop! Enough already if you dont agree with it tough, everybody has a right to their opinions, the media just needs to shut the hell up and stay out of other peoples business and report on stocks and bonds and sports like we want you to.

jerry
jerry

Every church is anti - gay duh!! This politically correct bs has got to stop! Enough already if you dont agree with it tough, everybody has a right to their opinions, the media just needs to shut the hell up and stay out of other peoples business and report on stocks and bonds and sports like we want you to.

lobotrojan
lobotrojan

Psalms 119:86 - All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

Tim, my brother, there is nothing new under the sun. Evil institutions gives "no quarter" to people who have turned their backs on the"Vanity Fair" of this age and have chosen to follow Christ.

Mike
Mike

I love the times we are living in today. If a person attempts to live a Christian lifesyle, he or she is vilified, mocked, made fun of etc., by the Christianphobes in what used to be considered main stream media, and the majority in our "celebrity culture." Conversely, if an individual comes out saying that he or she is a homosexual the media would be fawning all over the person saying how courageous he or she was, and giving them a platform any time they wanted it. We are truly living in some perverse times, but, I must admit that I love it, because it's Bible prophecy coming true daily! Stay strong Tim and God Bless You!

Robert Medina
Robert Medina

Tebow and that pastor Jeffrees make me sick. Tebow does a "Hail Mary" at the football game!.. He is gonna need them(Hail Mary's) for sure if he keeps his rhetoric up! He is a poor excuse for a "Christian".....

bobemakk
bobemakk

Tim Tebow is one of the only role models left in sports. The rest have gotten into so much trouble, it is outrageous. You keep praying Tim, and to hades with those who don't like it.

dk_in_tn
dk_in_tn

NBC should be ashame of themselves. Go Tebow.

DINORightMarie
DINORightMarie

The author - who is NOT a "sports journalist" if this is what he writes! - exposes himself for what he is by using ThinkProgress as a "source." Really?! REALLY?!?! Anyone with any sense would discard this tool. But then, as Rush says, the "low information voter" will suck this up like it's BO-Kool-Aid.

When did EVERY article, topic, and genre become a platform for promoting the political leftist agenda?! When they took over the education of the journalists, and began indoctrinating all the way down to the elementary level.

It's not a "bug" - it's a "feature."

NCHokie02
NCHokie02

Couldn't put it any better than you did RS. Hopefully Tim remembers tha Christ said "remember when they persecute you that they persecuted me first" and "when they hate you remember that they hated me first". (paraphrasing there and don't remember the exact verse you get the idea)

12grace
12grace

May G-d bless and protect Tim Tebow.

Herb Benty
Herb Benty

Tim Tebow had the gall to be a born again Christian in PUBLIC, for that alone the left will never forgive him. What would these leftist idiots have done with America's Founders who had "church" in Congress at one time. It is clear now what is happening to the USA when the Founders correctly stated that for America to succeed it had to be religous AND moral. Evolutionary atheists and marxism are America's downfall.

JAMES R MC CORMACK
JAMES R MC CORMACK

The MSM leave the Muslims alone, the cowards are afraid of getting their heads removed.Perhaps us Christians need to "act as soldiers going off to War".

Br. Thomas
Br. Thomas

Perhaps. Perhaps we should use the methods of terrorists to silence our detractors ? Is this a " will no one ride me of this meddlesome priest" remark, James? Perhaps " us Christians" need to put to the sword any and all who dare to disagree with you James?

Jazzee
Jazzee

leave TEBOW ALONE he has a right to practice his religion anyway he wants

just like all you idiots have the right to your abortions/free pills shut UP ABOUT tebow

Brian
Brian

NBC News hates God, News at 11:00

John3_3
John3_3

Ro 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Dorothy Vance
Dorothy Vance

I don't know why they are so hell bent at this boy. He is a good person for our kids to look up to. Being in sports a lot of young boys will look up to him and the way he lives his life. I would rather my children look up to him than all these rappers and party celebrities.

earnye
earnye

Thanks for this article. This is a warning to those of us who are believers in Jesus Christ. We who follow Him must not compromise when it comes to our faith in God. It is important to remember that God calls homosexuality a sin as He does with murder, thievery or, adultery? When Christians speak out on behalf of their faith in regards to these topics, it does not mean that we hate anyone involved in these situations.

So, stand up for what you believe in and leave the consequences to God. He will not let us down. Thanks.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

The true research is done here, right at the Scoophouse. All the low-information people are going to see in the other headlines is "Tim Tebow", "anti-gay", "anti-semitic" (although that's not really one of the groups they care about in their 'big tent'), and "Christian". Put all those together and they need no story. It's plain as the wart on their faces what they will come up with.

Rshill7
Rshill7

Wow, great job Scoop.

A+ for you in "due diligence".

Rshill7
Rshill7

I am so proud of Tim Tebow and his parents. America used to be filled with people like these...back when America was great. Not sure what it is right now. Something's gotta give though.

You can take it to the bank that it won't be Christian Soldiers. They will stand firm. It'll be Christian haters who run screaming, right into Hell's front row.

Our history is replete with persecution, standing firm, fighting back and submitting to torture and death for the name of Christ.

Dear NBC:

"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matthew 10:28 NIV)

Tebow serves Him. Who do you serve? Remember, being well-done is not as rare as you might think.

Rs.

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

Tim Tebow is the real thing. A compassionate, giving, caring human being, a true humble godly man.

Yet, they hate and mock him so continuously. Still, I bet a lot of his team mates were impressed and are thinking about their own lives after having seen how Tim lives, speaks, thinks.

Christianity - the Way of Love Truth and Life - is really the most excellent way. (I Corinthians 13)

nosilasunny
nosilasunny

Who is not afraid to stand up for the sanctity of life. He is not ashamed to proclaim Christ. He is definitely the real deal, a man of principle and faith. Thank God I don't care what the media says, because I think he is a true role model unlike a lot of the athletes today.

Rocco11
Rocco11

Communists continue to attempt to tear down everything this country stands for...

Booker T.(D - Politburo Pond)
Booker T.(D - Politburo Pond)

Who cares. The lib media will never like Tebow or anything remotely Christian. Their opinions aren't worth a bucket of warm....

donalddt
donalddt

Amen to that !!! You can say allah, father, God and they will sort of tolerate it but when you mention Jesus, they go beserk and their hatred comes to the top with them.

Laurel
Laurel

Don't you guys know that you aren't allowed to disagree with the left in any way, shape, or form or you are a hateful bigoted homophobes?

I swear the left suffers from arrested development.

donalddt
donalddt

Yes, He did and Christians should expect the world will hate us. The last days are coming on fast! The non Christians in this nation are getting more and more bold with their hatred.

donalddt
donalddt

Of course the devil will use the media especially NBC and satan will use accuse anyone who professes that Jesus is the only way to Salvation. If Jesus were here preaching today they would hate Him because He says He is the only way to Heaven. The other religions have no one who paid the price of our sin. None of them do except those who follow Christ.

c4pfan
c4pfan

Only hate I notice are from people on the Left that cheer on a murderer, support a guy that uses minor prosistutes and a guy that vocally hates Isreal.

Joe
Joe

There MUST be a way to get the MSM in line

They have so many enemies

PhillyCon
PhillyCon

It requires alot of money from people on our side. Instead of throwing money at Karl Rove, how about some of these businessmen buy a media outlet?

ryanomaniac
ryanomaniac

We need to brainstorm and see if we can do just that. Get them in line. Just read that CNN might be going hard left. They were already liberal but nothing like MSNBC. Now we can say MSNBCCNN. Now the media have a stranglehold on a lot of information. I'm sorry but they got us beat bad. We don't have a chance in my opinion unless God steps in.

K-Bob
K-Bob

Excellent fisking, Scoop!

TexasPGRRider
TexasPGRRider

We`ll just have to say a Prayer for `em...Lord, PLEASE open the hearts of everyone everywhere to Truth...Thru Jesus Christ, Your Son and our Savior, Amen....

crosshr
crosshr

looks like prayer is one of our top best weapon we can always hold on to regardless of location, position and situation.

Amen Texas.

np : please remember all our Christian churches leaderships in prayer

colliemum
colliemum

Thanks for putting this up.

The arrogance of those people is beyond belief. Who are they that they think they can dictate as to where Tim Tebow should speak?

It's been said before, but worth repeating: the aim of these metrosexual, semi-intellectual gits is to ridicule Christians, and thus Christ.

We were told this would happen. Tim Tebow knows that as well.

There will be a reckoning, and I hope these gits will learn one day that we cannot stand at the final Judgement if we do not have Jesus standing at our side.

OT, for all who're on twitter:

Dr Ben Carson has joined the twitterverse today: @RealBenCarson

Rshill7
Rshill7

We southern gents use "git" in a rather different way British Sister.

Could you define that word in the vernacular you use there?

colliemum
colliemum

It's used like 'tosser', where 'tosser' is just a tiny bit more rude than 'git'.

Of course, the word one would really use but can't, not in polite society, starts with a 'w', and the rest of that word rhymes with 'anchor' .... and 'tosser' and 'git' are more polite variations.

Hope this helps!

;-)

sDee
sDee

I'm still confused. I'm gonna go have a cuppa. ;)

PNWShan
PNWShan

"metrosexual, semi-intellectual gits"

I love this phrase, colliemum!

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

Well said mum!

As for Dr. Carson, I saw that and went, "Whooo hooo!"

colliemum
colliemum

Same here! He's already got nearly 2000 followers. His inbox must be swamped by all the welcomes he's received.

Jaels_Song
Jaels_Song

"On the eve of the presidential election in November 2012, Jeffress warned his Dallas congregation that President Barack Obama’s re-election would “lead to the rise of the Antichrist,” according to The Christian Post."

Barack Obama's election IS leading us in the direction of the rise of the Antichrist.

Mat 10:24 "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master. 25 "It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they malign the members of his household!