In addition to KISS music still being a lot of fun, and for avoiding alcoholic beverages, smoking and drugs, Mr. Simmons—AFAIK a secularist from a Jewish family, came to the defense of an athlete who is quite his opposite:
www.imdb.com for more about Gene Simmons, also an actor
Apparently he’s more conservative than liberal, but leans a little left on issues like marriage and abortion rights. And here he is, not only opposite in faith but was known as The Demon with KISS, standing up for Tim Tebow.
I don’t know that they’re angry WITH kneelers, but seeing a double standard.
They think it’s OK to be white and pray to Jesus, but not to be black and take a knee to protest the treatment of minorities in police custody.
Personally I think many supported Kaepernick when he was strictly taking a knee during the Bellamy Pledge, but lost patience once he started wearing pig socks to insult police and promoting Castro’s Cuba.
I’ve never understood the attacks against Tebow. Is he praying out of malice or spite? I don’t get the impression he is.
There are nonwhite progressives. It’s interesting few of them are attacking Tebow.
Seems mostly white liberals like John Oliver are playing that game. Could it be black and Hispanic progressives were raised in homes where Catholic or another Christian faith played a part?
There are some Asian progressives, too, and they don’t seem to be part of the attacks. Maybe they don’t practice any faith but don’t care if someone else does?
In any case it seems to be mostly white progressives attacking white Evangelicals.
Tebow became the white knight for some football fans but his smarmy evangelizing didn’t really play very well with teammates or coaches, and for a guy who was a quarterback he is not an accurate thrower, at all. He was pressured to move to an H back or tight end position but he refused because he had to be a quarterback.
So, here he is in his 30’s trying to break back into the NFL as…a tight end.
…and likely only getting involved in this whole thing in a desperate attempt to grab hold of any kind of cultural relevance whatsoever. KISS never were a very good band musically, and YES, Gene Simmons is one disgusting individual for so many reasons. I wouldn’t want him defending my religious rights whatsoever.
