Tea Party Congressman Attacks Obama For Calling First Openly Gay NBA Player, Wishes He’d Called Tebo

[DonViejo]

Tea Party Congressman Attacks Obama For Calling First Openly Gay NBA Player, Wishes He’d Called Tebow Instead

Years from now, when the United States is a shell of its former self and we are ruled by hedonist overlords, schoolchildren will look back on April 29, 2013 as the fateful day when President Obama called Jason Collins after he became the first openly gay NBA player, thus undermining American culture forever.

This is the type of future envisioned by Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on the House floor last week. In a freewheeling discussion of everything from immigration to Russian Marxists, the Iowa congressman criticized Obama’s decision to call Collins after his courageous move. “These are the ways that culture gets undermined,” King lamented. “One notch at a time, American civilization, American culture, western civilization, western Judeo-Christiandom are eroded.”
King contrasted Obama’s chat with Collins to the fact that the president hasn’t personally called ex-New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow, “who will kneel and pray to God on the football field.”

KING: I hear the president reducing or lowering American values by his comments that take place in the public and in the press. Think about the things he’s chosen to take sides on. ... Then we’ve got Tim Tebow who will kneel and pray to God on the football field. Meanwhile we have a professional athlete that decides he’s going to announce his sexuality and he gets a personal call from the United States to highlight the sexuality of a professional ballplayer. These are ways that the culture gets undermined, where it gets divided. The people over on this side take their followership from that kind of leadership. One notch at a time, American civilization, American culture, western civilization, western Judeo-Christiandom are eroded.

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King has a storied history as a culture warrior since entering the House in 2003. He has argued that marriage equality is a “purely socialist concept“, belittled marriage equality by saying “you don’t need a license to begin a new friendship,” contended that LGBT people should have to hide their orientation at work, and said that children will be raised in “warehouses” if conservatives don’t “defend marriage”.

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http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/05/13/2001041/steve-king-jason-collins/

[Arkana]

1. Yes, because Saint Timothy of Tebow

is the first EVER football player to invoke Jesus in everything he does!

Oh, wait, no he's not--and Steve King is STILL a colossal fucking moron.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Overpaid athletes who invoke Jesus are a dime a dozen.

[apnu]

3. What an asshat.

Christians have zero problems in professional sports. They're allowed to pray and make other religious signs all the time. I've seen NFL, NBA and MLB players cross themselves, take a knee in prayer and other displays, live during the game.

So where's the percussion of Christians in American sports?

Oh wait! There isn't any.

What a jackass.

[KamaAina]

4. Why would Obama call St. Timmeh?

He hasn't won jack. Or done anything else particularly noteworthy.

[totodeinhere]

5. Actually President Obama already met Tim Tebow and praised his accomplishments in

2009. The president reaches out to many people and this time it was Jason Collins' turn.