I Just Don't Get It

27 January 2010

Some women groups, extremist groups is the only way to describe them, are raising a lot of hell regarding a commercial ad that is scheduled to run during the Super Bowl.
According to the reports, a Christian group called Focus on the Family, has paid for the commercial ad in which Pam Tebow discusses the decision she made 22 years ago of having a child her doctors suggested she abort due to an infection she had contracted while on a Christian mission in the Philippines.
Pam decided, at the time, that she wanted to take her pregnancy to term and she had a son. Her son, Tim, grew up to become one of the best College Football players from the University of Florida, winner of the coveted 2007 Heisman Trophy.

A feminist group called Women’s Media Center, flanked by the ever present National Organization for Women, and some other more obscure groups, are creating a huge amount of noise directed to force CBS to pull the ad, justifying their agenda with the excuse that the ad would be directed to put abortion under a negative light and inspire violence against proponents of reproductive choice advocates. The feminist groups also state that the generator of the ad, the group Focus on the Family, is a divisive and intolerant group that should not be allowed to air the commercial.
Executives at CBS have seen the ad and have expressed no negative feeling about it and the message being advanced.
The humorous part of this controversy is that very few people have actually seen the ad, and definitely no one from NOW or any other feminist associations.

It so appear that the feminist groups are against any expression of support or encouragement of the family institution. They have decided the ad is detrimental to their cause without even seeing it, which is really interesting considering that it supposedly speaks of a woman that made a choice under a stressful set of circumstances. The interesting part for me is the issue of “choice” which is so loudly lamented by the feminists. Pam Tebow made a choice and took the chance making the choice for life. I would think her ability to make a choice should be celebrated and not maligned. Would they approve of the ad if she had chosen to abort her child?

Than there is the issue of Focus on the Family. This is a group I am not too familiar with, but it is a legitimate organization, concentrating mainly on the issues of family.
I am not going to talk about abortion, as it remains a personal issue and directly irrelevant to my ranting. What is bothering me of this whole thing is the fact that a group of people feel they have the right to interfere with the freedom of speech of others.
The ad was paid for and as long as the message does not incite violence of is offensive toward the majority of the population, there should be no limitation to its expression. Just because one does not agree with someone else’s words, one does not have the right in the United States, to prevent another from expressing their views.

For example, millions of Americans find the message from the Westboro Baptist Church highly offensive. I personally would like nothing more than be able to bash some heads when I see their signs thanking God for dead soldiers. But as vile and revolting their rhetoric is, regardless of the wave of rage they are able to inspire in usually mild men and women, the WBC has the Constitutionally guaranteed right to spew their venom.

I sure hope the CBS executives will not cave into the demands of these Fascist groups who, without any concrete idea of what the ad’s message is, only aspire to curb someone else’s right to express their ideas. Their goal is to stifle the freedom of expression of others for the mere reason that does not fit their agenda.
I say watch the ad and if instigating violence against abortion providers and patients is the message of it, than you raise hell. Wanting to censor someone else’s First Amendment right without knowing what you are speaking of just makes your position seem silly.

Where the hell do they get their nerves? I just don’t get it!

And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”