Apparently a couple of Detroit Lions players mocked him on Sunday - after sacking him they'd get on one knee and pretend to be praying.
Apparently there's been no disciplinary action for this. I would think that those football players who are Christians - the ones who run into the endzone and then point skyward, might take exception to such mockery. And if any Muslim players were mocked for their religion - someone bowing their head three times against the ground - they of course would be fired toot sweet.
But should mocking someone's religion on the football field be grounds for firing someone?
RUSH: Let me tell you a little story. I read Phil Mushnick every Friday, Sunday, and Monday in the New York Post. He's a sports columnist, but his expertise and focus is in the area of... of... ah, morality and sports and how our moral decline is being led by (or severely contributed to) by sports. He cites something that happened in his column today last Sunday in the Denver Broncos-Detroit Lions game. The quarterback of the Broncos is Tim Tebow, and Tim Tebow has made no secret of the fact that he's a devout Christian, and he's laughed at for this. During the game there were two instances that Mushnick writes about where Tebow was sacked, I believe. Two different Lions players taunted and mocked him after the sack by getting on the ground and mocking the whole notion of praying. There were no penalties called -- and there are taunting rules in football.
There were no penalties called, and Mushnick's point is that it is perfectly fine, even now in American sports, to make fun of good people. Good people are no longer marketable because they're boring. But the bad actors, the guys that shoot themselves with guns at nightclubs at three in the morning? They're the people are gonna be on the cover of magazines. They're the ones that get all the feature stories on ESPN. The good guys, we can laugh at 'em, and we can make fun of 'em -- particularly if we're laughing at their religion. Now, if the quarterback were a Muslim, we couldn't do it. If the quarterback were Jewish, we couldn't do it, but since Tebow is a white Christian? This is Mushnick's theory and he was pointing out how none of the announcer crew at this game even pointed it out, even though it was right there for every viewer to see. It's a point that dovetails with what you're making. Not only do these people down at Occupy Wall Street claim not to believe in God, the whole concept is made fun of as old-fashioned and quaint and boring and nerdy.
CALLER: Yeah. Yeah.
RUSH: And get this story. Now, get this. I found this today. This is right up your alley, too. This is Fox News and Commentary, a guy named Todd Starnes. "The Air Force Academy..." I'm not making up a word of this. "The Air Force Academy apologized last night after it was accused of religious intolerance for promoting Operation Christmas Child in an e-mail. Operation Christmas Child is a program designed to send holiday gifts to poor children around the world. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation said that military commanders crossed the line when they promoted the program, which is sponsored by Franklin Graham, Billy Graham's son. Operation Christmas Child said they expect to send more than eight million shoebox gifts to poor kids in a hundred countries.
"Sixty thousand churches, 60,000 community groups in the US are participating." Now, the guy who got all this started is Mikey Weinstein. He is president of a group that opposes this, and he said this is a proselytizing entity of Franklin Graham. "He filed a complaint on behalf of 132 Air Force Academy personnel, including two sets of Muslim-American parents. The attack on Operation Christmas Child has generated outrage across the country. Randy Forbes, a Republican from Virginia, said it's another anti-faith effort that we're seeing by this administration. Tony Perkins, the president of Family Research Council, told Fox News this is evidence that the Obama [regime] is engaged in a culture war beyond measure." So you had a couple of Muslim parents complain to a group, a watchdog group that this is a Christian effort that made 'em uncomfortable and so the Air Force has been forced to pull out of a charity operation to give poor kids in a hundred countries Christmas presents.
How is this promoting religous intolerance? If you don't want to contribute to a Christian organization that is giving toys to kids - don't contribute to it! If you're not a Christian but you believe it's in a good cause, contribute to it! Who cares!
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