Tim Tebow is taboo, according to ESPN. And it's nearly impossible any NFL will hire him. In the June issue of ESPN Magazine, dubbed the taboo issue, the sports giant labels Tebow as someone no NFL team wants to touch. And, surprisingly, ESPN takes part of the blame for making that happen.
Makes me wonder if Tebow was "taken out of the way" because of his milquetoast testimony...
"Since you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth" Rev 3:16
Tim Tebow Betrays the Christian Right
He gained a few unexpected fans in the gay community today, but notoriously God-fearing quarterback Tim Tebow may have scared off the very supporters who saw him as a Christian celebrity even as his NFL career has fizzled — they're calling his about-face on an anti-gay marriage pastor "disastrous," and declaring "his street cred with the evangelical community" all but gone.
On Thursday morning, via a string of tweets, the backup QB for the New York Jets (for now, at least) cancelled an upcoming appearance at the First Baptist Church in Dallas. Tebow's second-guessing followed reports that First Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress attacked gay marriage, Islam, and Mormonism in several recorded sermons. The turnaround surprised many of Tebow's critics — who have noted his support for the vehemently anti-gay organization Focus on the Family — and, in equal measure, left some of his more vocal supporters on the Christian right more than gobsmacked. The influential conservative radio host Bryan Fischer, for one, called Tebow a "coward":
Does he disagree with him when he says that homosexuality is a sin? Does he disagree with him when he says that Islam is a false religion? If Tebow does not in fact disagree with Jeffress on any of these points, then his decision looks like nothing more than craven capitulation to the nattering nabobs of negativism and intolerance.
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