Mad-dog Right: Neil Patrick Harris is using the Superbowl to slam Christianity and promote Teh Gay

[marmar]

from HuffPost:



Neil Patrick Harris is being slammed for "mocking Christianity" with a new Super Bowl ad.

Harris is featured in a new commercial wearing eye black printed with "Feb. 3, 2013," or the date of Super Bowl XLVII. The ad is a direct nod to New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow, who won't be participating in the Super Bowl but is known for posting Bible verses in his eye black.

The "How I Met Your Mother" star's move has sparked the ire of conservative news site WND. Writer Joe Kovacs condemned Harris, who he deems as "making no secret of his homosexuality," as well CBS for the clip:

"CBS, the television network airing the big game this year, is now using an outspoken homosexual actor to mimic Tim Tebow’s style of trumpeting messages in eyeblack on his face.

One football fan who watched the CBS promo Sunday made the connection between Harris and Tebow, saying, 'They’re pushing a gay agenda by using him, and they’re mocking Christians at the same time.'"

As Towleroad pointed out, this isn't the first time eye black has sparked controversy on the field. Toronto Blue Jays shortshop Yunel Escobar took the field earlier this year with an anti-gay slur ("maricon&quot written in his eye black during a game against the Boston Red Sox. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/neil-patrick-harris-super-bowl-cbs-ad-slammed_n_2424579.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000047&ir=Entertainment

[gollygee]

1. In any situation where it is NPH vs Tebow

I will always be Team Neil.

[unblock]

2. christianity owns eye black?

[Shrike47]

5. No, Christianity owns messages written in eye black. Or maybe Tebow does.

Same difference.

[ck4829]

4. Wow, he's not attacking, he's not smearing, he's not slamming anyone, here's the problem

"is now using an outspoken homosexual actor"

"They’re pushing a gay agenda by using him"

Just the fact that a gay person exists or that someone else is acknowledging that a gay person exists is an attack on the Christian Right.

[FreeState]

22. This n/t

[Kalidurga]

6. I don't get it...

I am not seeing a slam against Christianity or any promotion of Teh Gay. I must be blind.

[ck4829]

7. It's because someone's acknowledging a gay person exists

[Kalidurga]

10. OIC

Acknowledging gay people and not having them out of sight and out of mind is repressing Christians. Oh wait, I don't get it.

[kydo]

8. reggie bush was doing this way before tebow

I like all three Neil Patrick Harris, Reggie Bush and Tim Tebow.

[maveric56]

21. Reggie Bush had his San Diego area code

on him. No Agenda at all.

[Left Brain]

9. Seems to me that NPH is just exercising his freedoms

or maybe that's what WND has a problem with.

[jorno67]

11. Mocking Tebow is not mocking christanity

Besides...that's most likely the closest Tim (watch me pray) Tebow will ever get to the Super Bowl.

[onenote]

12. Kovacs is upset that Harris "makes no secret of his homosexuality"

A statement that makes me wonder if Kovacs is keeping secrets of his own.

[progressoid]

13. NPH can do no wrong.

[randome]

14. My daughters adore him.

He has style.

[xxqqqzme]

15. I don't understand.

Isn't the ad the product of CBS? Why aren't these poor persecuted Christians calling for a boycott of the game?



Yea, like that's gonna happen.

[NewJeffCT]

16. so, CBS is using the star of one of their more popular shows

to promote the Super Bowl? And, this is mocking Christianity?

[Flashmann]

17. I am enthusiastically in favor

Of anything mocking Tebow and Tebows in your face Christianty....Way to go Doogie!!!

[NCTraveler]

18. The gay agenda.

This is it. NPH is pushing the damn agenda!!!!

[LisaLynne]

19. Have we ever gotten ...

an actual copy of this agenda? Is there a lunch break? A Q&A session?

[TDale313]

20. Oh Noes!!!

A gay man? Near our beloved football? Can't let people know... There are gay men who like football... Some even play football. Shhhh... Don't tell anyone.

[Paladin]

23. Neil Patrick Harris Gets A Permanent Good-Conduct Pass From Me....

...for his role in "Starship Troopers" (or as my daughters refer to it, "Dad's bug movie&quot . Doogie Howser, all grown up and strutting around in an SS uniform? You betcha......

[Denninmi]

24. Good.

I knew there was a reason I liked NPH.