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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. —
Two New York high school athletes have been flagged for organizing several "kneel-downs" in tribute to Tim Tebow.
The mother of 17-year-old twins Connor and Tyler Carroll says they are impressed with the Denver Broncos quarterback. Tebow has led Denver to a 7-1 record and is a devout Christian known for kneeling in prayer on the gridiron.
The twins play football and baseball for Riverhead High School on Long Island. Mom Sherry Carroll says they had no religious intentions when they organized the kneel-downs this week.
About 40 students participated in the largest act of "Tebowing" on Wednesday.
District Superintendent Nancy Carney says the tribute posed a safety hazard by blocking others from getting to class.
Sherry Carroll says Connor served an in-school suspension Friday. Tyler serves his punishment Monday
Urban Meyer told Dan Patrick that he thought Tebow was a hypocrite regarding his first exposure to Tim's frequent verbal expression of faith. However within a short period of time he realized Tim's faith is very sincere and was simply a natural expression for him. Coach Meyer then wittnessed that the Florida football team and program began to change from Tim's wittness (change is a very positive way). What was even more remarkable, coach Meyer said he and is family have been changed in a very positive way from knowing Tim.
This testimony from coach Meyer is a simple confirmation of what some of us have known for several years. Tim Tebow is just being himself and has become a very positive influence on those that really get to know him. Tim Tebow may become the most polarizing athlete since Mohammed Ali. The Tebow story has even been carried by Fox News and other major media venues that usually do not cover celebrity stories.....very interesting era in the world of sports.
Oh God, ESPN is killing this story to death. No surprise.
I agree...that pastor is dumb and doing a disservice.
Romo got a bunch of attention when he was an undrafted kid out of Iowa who was supposed to be a cross between Kurt Warner and Roger Staubach. This year he's already choked away a couple of games.
This kid that everyone said couldn't play keeps shoving it in the face of those people, and you can't possibly think that there's a bigger story in the NFL right now than everyone crapping on this kid and he just keeps winning and being humble.
Romo got a bunch of attention when he was an undrafted kid out of Iowa who was supposed to be a cross between Kurt Warner and Roger Staubach. This year he's already choked away a couple of games.
This kid that everyone said couldn't play keeps shoving it in the face of those people, and you can't possibly think that there's a bigger story in the NFL right now than everyone crapping on this kid and he just keeps winning and being humble.
I don't know what you're talking about, only Tebow would be so clutch as to get two interceptions returned for touchdowns within 15 seconds of eachother in the final eight minutes.
In a recent email, I read about a woman named Pam, who knows the pain of considering abortion. More than 24 years ago, she and her husband Bob were serving as missionaries to the Philippines and praying for a fifth child.
Pam contracted amoebic dysentery, an infection of the intestine caused by a parasite found in contaminated food or drink. She went into a coma and was treated with strong antibiotics before they discovered she was pregnant.
Doctors urged her to abort the baby for her own safety and told her that the medicines had caused irreversible damage to her baby. She refused the abortion and cited her Christian faith as the reason for her hope that her son would be born without the devastating disabilities physicians predicted. Pam said the doctors didn't think of it as a life, they thought of it as a mass of fetal tissue.
While pregnant, Pam nearly lost their baby four times but refused to consider abortion. She recalled making a pledge to God with her husband: If you will give us a son, we’ll name him Timothy and we’ll make him a preacher.
Pam ultimately spent the last two months of her pregnancy in bed and eventually gave birth to a healthy baby boy August 14, 1987. Pam’s youngest son is indeed a preacher. He preaches in prisons, makes hospital visits, and serves with his father’s ministry in the Philippines.
He also plays football. Pam’s son is Tim Tebow.
Many of you probably already know this (there was a television commercial related to it during last year's Super Bowl).
From an e-mail I had received:
My pastor went to seminary with Bob Tebow--here in Portland, at Western Seminary..
Many of you probably already know this (there was a television commercial related to it during last year's Super Bowl).
From an e-mail I had received:
I don't get the point of this story. The doctors were making decisions and recommendations on what was medically best for the patient. Not religiously, not morally but what was medically best.
Do you want your doctor making decisions on your health care based on his or her religious beliefs? Did Mrs Tebow's doctors stop treating her when she told them they didn't want to terminate the pregnancy? How does Mrs Tebow know the doctors thought of her pregnancy only as a "mass of fetal tissue"?
Your link supports what I said, doctors recommended terminating the pregnancy to avoid further endangering her life. They didn't try and force an abortion on her. They made medically based recommendations for what was best for the patient at that time.
Your link also provides a much more complete and accurate overview of what really happened.

My pastor went to seminary with Bob Tebow--here in Portland, at Western Seminary. Says he's an amazing man, that the entire family is remarkable.
I just don't get why people want to root against this guy.
