Interview: Gene Simmons Defends Tim Tebow, Wants Football To Be More Like KISS

Radio.com ^ | 9/13/13

[Impala64ssa]

Has polarizing football player Tim Tebow gotten a raw deal in the press because of his religious beliefs? And would he be treated more respectfully if he were not Christian, and specifically, Muslim? Gene Simmons thinks so.

“He’s got a religious passion, as well he should, we’re in America,” the KISS frontman told Radio.com earlier this week. ”He’s proud to be a Christian, what’s wrong with that? And yet, with sports media and pop culture media, they make fun of his religion. Really? In America? If he was wearing a burqa, they wouldn’t dare say anything [editor's note: only Muslim women wear burqas]. But if you’re a Christian, you get to be picked on? What the hell? The guy’s got family values. I never saw the media picking on Michael Vick for torturing dogs. Or this other football player, who’s alleged to have killed, committed murder. That’s ‘cool.’ But a guy who’s religious and has got family values isn’t ‘cool?’ He’s cool to me.”

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Yes, I love Gene Simmons for his unadulterated honesty.

I may not agree with his morals, but nobody can ever accuse him of hypocrisy.

For heaven's sake, he wrote a book called "Sex, Money, Kiss"

Revealing his priorities in this life.

And yes, he is a moral person.

I couldn't afford it, but I'd be honored to be his neighbor.

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Great story about KISS

KISS does a high school Homecoming

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=arruda/100301_kiss

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Imagine how many lives were changed by that event. Thanks for sharing.

[Impala64ssa]

Say what you will about his music, or his morals, or whatever, but I respect Gene Simmons. He is one of the few people in the music biz who will admit he’s in it for the money, and I appreciate that kind of honesty.
The late Frank Zappa pretty much conveyed the same message with this album:

Intentionally design to be a transparent ripoff of the Sgt Pepper album. Yes, he was offbeat, eccentric, sometimes downright outrageous, but I've always viewed Zappa as a man of integrity also.

[Impala64ssa]

Gene Simmons went to Sullivan County Community College.,br> I stand corrected. Shoulda known this. I lived about 45 min down the road from Sullivan, in the "Jewish Alps" as the old resort area was called.