Rolling Stone calls Tebow ‘hyper-Christian’

Tim Tebow is the subject of Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi this month, who equates the football star with anti-gay bigotry in Colorado. “Tim Tebow’s hyper-Christian aw-shucks persona is not easy to like, and the fact that it so perfectly fits in with the huge masses of gay-hating Focus on the Family types in Colorado […]

Tim Tebow is the subject of Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi this month, who equates the football star with anti-gay bigotry in Colorado.

“Tim Tebow’s hyper-Christian aw-shucks persona is not easy to like, and the fact that it so perfectly fits in with the huge masses of gay-hating Focus on the Family types in Colorado (remember Ted Haggard!) makes the whole Broncos picture doubly unappealing,” Taibbi writes, according to Mark Barna in his “The Pulpit” blog on gazette.com.

Barna’s paper hit back with an editorial saying the magazine “slams Colorado Christians” and offered a multipoint critique of Taibbi’s statement.


“Coloradans should ignore this special issue of a once-cool magazine that calls them haters. Dismiss the article, but don’t excuse the inexcusable anti-Christian bigotry of the person who wrote it,” writes editorial page editor Wayne Laugesen for The Gazette’s editorial board.

Denver publication Westword also reported on Taibbi’s take on Tebow.

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