Who is Tim Tebow and why do we hate him, you ask? Tim Tebow is the second year quarterback for the Denver Bronco's, and has just lead his team to their first playoff spot since 2006. Oh yeah, he's also a vocal christian who prays after touchdowns, did a Super Bowl Commercial for Focus on the Family last year and inspired the NCAA to create The Tebow Rule.
And he's famously a virgin. Shocking, right? This a total aside, but can you imagine the self control that guy must have to still be a virgin with his national exposure and (presumably) women throwing themselves at him left and right? As a star college quarterback and successful NFL quarterback, he's probably turned down more women than I've ever met in my life. Not dated, met.
So why do we hate him again? Because he's 1-christian. 2-vocal about it. 3-virgin. Again, shocking, right?
What the hatred of Timmeh really comes down too, though, is bigotry. Bigotry, loosely defined, is an irrational hatred of people, groups or beliefs other than your own. Tim, for better or worse, very clearly has different beliefs than they society at large. He may share a religion with 80 percent of American's, but he clearly takes it more seriously than most.
People don't hate Tim because of anything rational, they hate him because he is different than they are. It's unfortunate for Tim, really. If he had been born anything except for a white christian male, it would be verboten to criticize his personal lifestyle choices. It would be racism, or homophobism, or insert your preferred "-ism" here. The only group that it is acceptable to hate anymore in the US are white christian males, or possibly Jews, if your the "wrong" kind of Jew.
Maybe he should convert to Islam.
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