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Tim Tebow: God Knows, Boomer Esiason Doesn’t!
Boomer Esiason, the former, non-Super Bowl winning Quarterback who had an 80-93 record on teams he led, has blasted one of the league’s newest quarterbacks, Tim Tebow. In his official capacity as a football analyst for CBS Sports, Esiason shared his latest thoughts on Tebow during a CBS Press Event on Tuesday in New York: “He can’t play. He can’t throw. I’m not here to insult him. The reality is he was a great college football player, maybe the greatest college football player of his time. But he’s not an NFL quarterback right now. Just because he’s God-fearing, and a great person off the field, and was a winner with the team that had the best athletes in college football, doesn’t mean his game is going to translate to the NFL.” At least … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christianity, Religion, Sports
PFLAG, Baptist Churches & Autonomy
What’s up with local Baptist Associations? Several seem to have been quite busy in recent weeks, expelling member churches from their ranks. First, Surry Baptist Association, in Mt. Airy, NC, voted to oust Flat Rock Baptist Church within 16 days of the church calling a woman, Bailey Edwards Nelson, as their pastor. For those not familiar with Southern Baptist doctrine, calling a female pastor is not only highly discouraged, but it is well likely the only violation of pastoral qualifications (see 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1) that will get a church kicked out of the fold. Churches who call ill-tempered or greedy pastors or pastors who don’t have control over their own household (all violations of the Scriptural qualifications for elders or pastors) never have to worry about their … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christianity, Homosexual Agenda, Religion, Southern Baptist Convention
Teacher’s Free Speech Chilled Over “Anti-Gay” FB Post
That didn’t take long. Who would have ever thought that Mount Dora, the sleepy little community in Lake County, FL, would lead the way in stamping out any negative criticism of so-called gay marriage? No one would have ever envisioned this scenario even 10 years ago, but that just goes to prove how far the radical gay agenda has come in the last decade. I don’t think it will take another five years before all speech critical of gay rights or homosexuality will be effectively prohibited in the United States, notwithstanding the First Amendment. Jerry Buell, a 22 year veteran teacher in the Lake County (FL) public schools, has been suspended over a post he made on his personal Facebook page. Buell, who has a spotless teaching record, wrote two quick posts on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Homosexual Agenda, Religion