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Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score
By David GibsonWho'd have guessed that Focus on the Family would have so much in common with ManCrunch? The latter is the gay dating service that had its Super Bowl spot rejected by CBS, while Focus on the Family is the flagship political lobby of the Christian right that has been generating buzz for weeks over ...
Is the Resurrection Funny? One Church Has a Super Bowl Bet on It
By David Gibson
Tim Tebow vs. ManCrunch has become the dominant Super Bowl story line in the run-up to Sunday's championship game. The decision by CBS to broadcast the pro-life story of Tebow's birth vs. the decision to bar ManCrunch's gay dating service spot (as the network has done with other gay-themed ...
Tim Tebow and ManCrunch: 2 Hot-Potato Super Bowl Ads
By Ria Misra
It's a week before kickoff, and two television ads already are causing controversy over what's appropriate to show during the Super Bowl: one ad because it will be aired, the other because it won't. CBS rejected a commercial on Friday for gay dating Web site, ManCrunch, saying it didn't meet ...
The Super Bowl as Culture-War Battleground
By Jeffrey Weiss
So here's American culture in 2010: A controversy about whether TV ads shown during the Super Bowl are "fair." Is that an argument that anybody really wants to start? The ads in question are about abortion -- starring just-former college football star Tim Tebow -- and gay dating -- for a company ...
Scott Brown Says Talk of Running for President 'Silly' but 'Humbling'
By Bruce Drake
It doesn't take long in today's relentless news cycles for a hot new political property to be immediately mentioned as a presidential candidate, but Massachusetts' Senator-elect Scott Brown said Sunday that talk of a race by him in 2012 was "silly" although "extremely humbling." Before taping an ...
Mother Teresa: Should a Saint Get Postal Service's Stamp of Approval?
By David Gibson
If anything qualifies as a no-brainer, it would seem to be honoring Mother Teresa of Calcutta on a stamp. Not really the biggest laurel the late Nobel Prize winner and sure-fire saint will ever merit, but nothing to sniff at -- especially given the price of a stamp these days. But of course, you ...
Sarah Palin, NOW Spar Over Tim Tebow's Super Bowl Ad
By David Sessions
The National Organization for Women is firing back at Sarah Palin, who took issue with the group's opposition to a pro-life Super Bowl ad that will feature college football player Tim Tebow, Politico reports. NOW said that Palin, who defended the Focus on the Family-sponsored ad and urged CBS not to ...
Catholic Bishops to Congress: Ditch the Politics, Pass Health Care
By David Gibson
In a strongly worded appeal that will test their political influence, especially with their pro-life and Republican allies, the Catholic bishops of the United States have told Congress to put politics aside and focus on the "moral imperative" of passing universal health care. "The health care ...
Teen Pregnancies Up; Is Abstinence-Only Emphasis a Reason?
By Ria Misra
After years of declines in teen pregnancy rates, a new study shows that rates of both teen pregnancies and abortions have begun to rise again. A report released on Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute shows that in 2006, almost 72 out of 1,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 19 had a pregnancy -- ...
Roe v. Wade Supporter Scott Brown, Improbable Pro-Life Hero
By David Gibson
The huge crowd of abortion opponents that gathered on the Mall in Washington on Friday for the annual March for Life had good reason to be celebrating on the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Recent polls have shown broad declines in public support for abortion, to ...
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