Tebow Super Bowl ad illustrates double standard

Can someone tell me how CBS can air the anti-gay hate group Focus on the Family’s Super Bowl ad featuring University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, but it refused to sell ad time to MoveOn and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals during the Super Bowl in 2004 because the network claimed it did not accept advocacy advertising?

The ad features Tebow‘s mother talking about how she ignored her doctor’s advice to abort a potential problem pregnancy and carried Tebow to term. I’m not really sure what the ad is really about, other than its anti-abortion. I certainly hope it’s not about telling women to ignore the medical advice of their doctors.

Planned Parenthood has an ad on YouTube featuring former Minnesota Viking Sean James and Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner in response to the Tebow ad where James and Joyner state in the video that they "respect Ms. Tebow's decision" not to have an abortion when she was pregnant with her son Tim, but they are also "working toward the day where... every woman's decision about her health and her family will be respected." In other words, do not take the choice away from other women. Planned Parenthood does not have the deep pockets like Focus on the Family because they use their money to provide health care services to poor and low income women, so it will not be aired during the Super Bowl.

In fact, I’m willing to bet Planned Parenthood has prevented more abortions that Focus on the Family ever has.

This is pure politics. For example, Jay Riemersma, one of four Republican congressional candidates running in the 2nd District, will host a rally Sunday in support Tebow. What support that is, I’m not really sure. Perhaps because women’s groups are trying to convince CBS not to air it, but this is just a chance to out conservative his GOP opponents and rally support for him.