Craggs at his best. Money quote:
Most everyone yammering about the commercial is asking the wrong questions. The real issue here has nothing to do with whether a famous football player should dive into such heated controversies; nor does it have anything to do with whether the Super Bowl is the proper platform from which to do so. (Please. The Super Bowl isn’t the proper platform for a lot of things, but they kept inviting Up with People back anyway.) Whatever your politics and faith, the question to ask is this: Do a famous football player and his mom have any business telling a national television audience, in coded language or otherwise, that we should ignore science, pray extra hard, and hope that God rolls the point in the great craps game of human existence, simply because He once rolled it for them? It’s wonderful that everything worked out for the Tebows. That it did was also — if the situation was indeed dire enough that doctors recommended terminating the pregnancy (in a deeply Catholic country that criminalizes abortion, no less) — extraordinarily lucky. The moment the family takes that private bit of providence and dangles it on television as a possibility for others — well, that’s the moment the family turns into just another set of TV charlatans. But wait, there’s more! That fetus could win a Heisman! This is dangerous stuff. They’re telling women, even the ones at risk, to gamble with their health. What’s pro-life about that?
Exactly so, sir.
