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January 13, 2009 | 5:55 pm

Tim Tebow is sinning against the NCAA

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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I don’t believe what I just saw.

On “Rome is Burning” a few minutes ago, they were actually debating the appropriateness of Tim Tebow’s “overt displays of faith.”

“Read the Constitution, the amendments, all that. I believe in separation of church and state and church and sport. I really do,” said Rick Telander, a sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times. “You couldn’t have Eat at Burger King across here”—moving his finger across the bottom of his eye. “What if somebody has Allah is Great? We are a very Christian nation and we assume that when we speak about religion everybody is on the same page. I just think that should be kept separate.”

Give me a break. Seriously. What a joke.

What’s next? Parents are prevented from naming their sons Muhammad or Christopher, lest they be prohibited from playing sports?

Tebow, you may remember, wrote “John” under his right eye and “3:16” under his left before the BCS National Championship Game last Thursday. John 3:16, the most often quoted verse of the Bible—for kids, it’s right after John 11:35 “Jesus wept”—states “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

I thought everyone knew this verse. Sort of like Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning ...” But it turns out that the day after the national title game, “John 3:16” was the top search on Google.

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Separation of Church and State is one of the most misunderstood ideas our founding fathers passed down to us.  Their idea was never to banish faith and church from the public forum…and certainly not to tell a college football player what he can and cannot put on his eye-black.

If NCAA wants to regulate players from putting stuff on their eye-black it should be a consistent ruling…either nothing can be put on there, or anything that isn’t foul or vulgar.  I think that would be reasonable.

As for verses, praise to one’s creator (regardless of the name given for the creator), or messages to loved ones at home; I see no problem with this.  It isn’t a crossing of Church and State, it is the freedom of expression being exerted in the public forum.

Comment by ethan on 1/13/09 at 7:43 pm

Couldn’t agree with Ethan more and that <strike>clown</strike> columnist from the Sun-Times less

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 1/13/09 at 8:00 pm

Jesus saves, but Gretzky scores on the rebound!!

Comment by LanceThruster on 1/14/09 at 12:24 am

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