Tim Tebow to Address Anti-Gay, Anti-Catholic, Anti-Mormon Megachurch

While the Christofascists nearly wet their pants and swoon over Tim Tebow, I for one have always found him to be a Pharisee like hypocrite who revels in making a public display of his supposed piety.  He apparently - like so many of the Christofascists selectively reads the Bible and is clueless about Christ's admonition to pray behind close doors, not making a show of one's piousness.  Now, Tebow is showing his true colors and is speaking at an anti-gay and anti-Catholic mega church.  Yes, Tebow is entitled to his views, but that doesn't mean one needs to like Tebow or his beliefs.  Right Wing Watch has details on Tebow's embrace of bigotry.  Here are highlights:

While Tim Tebow is struggling to find an NFL team that is willing to sign him, he is apparently having no problem booking speaking gigs as the Jets’ backup quarterback is scheduled to address a Texas megachurch whose pastor is notorious for extremist statements about Roman Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, gays and lesbians and President Obama.

Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church Dallas gained national attention during his appearance at the Values Voter Summit where he urged Christians to oppose Mitt Romney’s candidacy for the GOP nomination for president because his Mormon faith makes him a member of a “cult” that is “from the pit of Hell.”

Besides Muslims, Jeffress labeled Roman Catholics, Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists as cult followers. He has called Islam an “evil, evil religion” and claimed that Muslims, Mormons and Jews are destined to Hell.   Jeffress also attacked Roman Catholicism, which he maintains represents “the genius of Satan,” and suggested that Catholics too will go to Hell.

The megachurch pastor reserves some of his most stringent rhetoric for gays and lesbians.  He has described gays and lesbians as “perverse,” “miserable” and “abnormal” people who engage in an “unnatural” and “filthy practice” that will lead to the “implosion of our country.” Jeffress argues that the gay community employs Chinese “brainwashing techniques” in order to have homosexuality “crammed down our throats.”

One is known by the company they keep, and Tebow is keeping company with some pretty foul people