It says a great deal about the depths to which America\u2019s values have fallen that Tim Tebow–who, once upon a time, would have been the wholesome, women-and-mom-respecting, clean-playing, fresh-faced and faithful Hollywood ideal of a football hero\u201d\u201dis the target of such deep derision from so many sources, and in an era of such vaunted \u201ctolerance.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Although it may seem too easy to some, I blame the baby-boomers\u201d\u201da generation so in love with deconstructing old standards (and so completely neurotic about being perceived as anti-establishment, smart, and most of all, cool) that it only can express full-on admiration for the anti-heroes. Were Tim Tebow using his on-camera time to swagger and preen and lecture the nation on green energy, greedy millionaires, and gun control, his Christ-fixation would not only be permitted, it would be held up as a gaudy rebuke to uncool Christians everywhere, and his pronouncements\u201d\u201das long as he kept his mouth shut on abortion and gay marriage\u201d\u201dwould never be challenged.<\/p>\n