Posted on 09/13/2013 1:14:58 PM PDT by 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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Place your bets
Which Topic is going to have more duplicate threads?
A) Tim Tebow and Kiss
B) The Dad that wore the Daisy Duke Shorts
C) The help Obama start WWIII video
Hard to give odds on any one of them being favorite right now
Didn’t the XFL go under more than 10 years ago?
A non-religious Jew defending an evangelical Christian...God bless both of them.
Place your bets
Which Topic is going to have more duplicate threads?
A) Tim Tebow and Kiss
B) The Dad that wore the Daisy Duke Shorts
C) The help Obama start WWIII video
Hard to give odds on any one of them being favorite right now
c
Both Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are Jewish. Interestingly enough, they attended Julliard where they majored in classical music and graduated at the top of their class.
Simmons is left-libertarian, but despises the religious hate on Tebow because Simmons lost family in the Holocaust...I believe his mom is also a Holocaust survivor.
Simmons was born in Israel
His reality show Family Jewels was actually pretty good. Gene always had a money-making idea going on, and his kids were really polite and unspoiled.
Gene Simmons at Julliard? What?
I like Gene Simmons so I hate to bring this up, but I did see him doing an interview making fun of Christians and the fact that we believe a man died and came back to life. He was having major yuks over it. A youtube search could probably find the interview, I don’t remember where I saw it.
and KISS will never be in the RR Hall of Fame. They’ve been blacklisted. His reality show included one episode with his kid to visit a wounded veterans hospital. Will never forget that.
You’re alright, Gene Simmons.
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.
Interestingly enough, they attended Julliard where they majored in classical music and graduated at the top of their class.
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I’ve searched online and can find not a single thing to back this up. In fact the only college reference I could find for Gene Simmons went to Sullivan County Community College.
Never thought I’d write this, but thank you Gene Simmons for pointing out the obvious. Gene Simmons is someone the informational-challenged might listen to.
Gene and I have the same dry cleaner in Studio City, CA. He’s a very easy going, polite type of guy. Always saying “Eh, Hey ya”
When worlds collide.
I have to say, I think Totie Fields came out the winner here.
Never heard of the Juliard angle, but it is a fact he was a music teacher.
Amen!
Gene Simmons and Jackie Mason should do a show on Broadway.
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