I appreciated your respectful answer and kudos for the site. I certainly believe that discussion would be much more respectful, civil and productive if you were representative of more who participate in “debates” which almost always mischaracterize the argument or denigrate the perceived “intent” of the writer rather than responding to the content.

As to the substance of your points, in a country that is roughly deemed to be 85% Christian, why would this be controversial in the first place? It sounds to me like a circular argument – Christians are in the majority so they can’t be discriminated against, but public displays of his faith (one shared by the vast majority of the population) should be kept off the field and out of the public eye.

The fact is that, if the U.S. is made up so predominantly of Christians, why are Christian values so misunderstood and deemed politically to be extreme and outside the pale. Here in Canada under soft socialism, we are in the same boat – only worse. There is almost no one championing Christian values and liberal/secular/socialist concepts are considered “mainstream” and that is across all our major political parties.

The reaction to Tim Tebow shows exactly what is wrong culturally. Elitists in government, academia, the media, and in the courts are undermining the very values that the majority of the country would appear to hold. My view is that “Christianity” has become a largely elastic and meaningless term due to infiltration of liberal ideology across the culture. To be a Christian is to be a devout follower of Christ (his teachings, his example) and embracing his sacrifice under recognition we are all sinners. Far too many self-identifying “Christian’s” reject almost all that Christ and the bible proclaim. They also don’t have a “love” for sinners – most of whom are bible-believing evangelicals and their is no examination into their own dark hearts. That is exactly why sites like noapologies and christiangovernment exist and why Tim Tebow’s bold example is so needed.

Most who reject Christian/conservative values reject a mythology of what the public is told they are. Tebow is deemed a showboat rather than devout because that is the liberal narrative. When you have embraced the life changing reality of accepting Christ as your personal saviour, you should want to let everyone know about it and be a powerful witness. The only other options are to make your faith irrelevant by denouncing it’s very value; or forcing it on others. These aren’t options, but a betrayal of all that Christianity stands for.

While I personally harbor no ill will towards individual Christians, I am an Atheist, and I would like to attempt to explain why I personally find the Tebow thing strange.
America is a country where something like 85% of people are Christian. It’s not like Christianity is some persecuted religion here (regardless of what the conservatives here are insisting is what goes on). It’s just a little strange when almost every football player is probably playing, and Tebow insists on making sure that everyone knows that he’s praying. Despite that, I would like to stress that I think Tebow is a wonderful person. There are few people in the world that blow their money on helping others… I just wish he would let others talk about his strong faith like everyone else does, rather than making sure that everyone and their mother knows he has a strong faith. To me, it just smacks of worrying about what men think of you rather than doing it for the cause…

P.S. By US standards, I’m a disgusting liberal (that leans Socialist even!). Your blog is far better than any conservative blog I have ever seen based in the US. While I definitely don’t agree with all of your conclusions, I really wish that conservatives in our country were asking the kind of tough questions that you demanded of liberal society. I personally believe that everyone would come out better off.

In February of 1950, Henry Morgentaler arrived in Canada, and in 1953 he obtained his medical diploma at University of Montreal by making false claims about his prior medical studies at University of Marburg, Germany and University of Brussels, Belgium, (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgentaler ). Despite of three years of medical studies at U of M and despite of his fraudulently obtained medical diploma Henry Morgentaler could not hack it as a general practitioner in Montreal, so, out of his desperation he become an abortionist.

In order to protect himself (abortions were illegal in Canada) Henry specialised in elimination (forced abortions) of unwanted children spawned by rich and powerful (politicians. bureaucrats etc) and their relatives. By 1973 Henry got so powerful himself that in one notable letter, discovered recently, he blackmailed then Prime Minister known as P.E.T. (see: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2008/may/08050801 ). Eventually Henry’s business model of hidden cameras videotaping his clients and blackmail was picked up by people who were supplying girls to Toronto Elite for “well earned” sexual pleasures, see: http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=4525737&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=3
Over time Henry’s forced abortion services bloomed and Henry become Toronto Elite’s first line of defence against gold digging call girls who were trying win meal tickets by getting pregnant with rich and powerful (for last line of defence see: http://www.caledonenterprise.com/news/agency-remembers-escort-as-a-%E2%80%98sweet-intelligent-girl%E2%80%99/ ). Grateful Toronto Elite gave Henry rent free place to perform his grisly trade, free security services worth millions of dollars of taxpayers money, (see: http://www.canadafreepress.com/1999/9901a7.htm) and a bubble zone in front of his clinic “vigorously” enforced by Toronto Police (See: Linda Gibbons prosecution at: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/imprisonment+Linda+Gibbons/5862988/story.html ) so, nobody would ever see gag and bound gold digger, or any other unfortunate woman for that matter, dragged out of a car into Henry’s clinic.
In his old age Henry wanted an Order of Canada so it seems that he blackmailed sexual service providers to rich and powerful and they in turn blackmailed people who could arrange the Order of Canada for old Henry.