So how many people or groups beclowned themselves making overblown statements over what is, at root, whether you are pro or anti-choice, a really quite beautiful message and a simple and understated commercial (the final ad/s really just try to push you off to Focus on the Family's site)? Sally Jenkins had a terrific piece on the controversy in the Washington Post on Tuesday: Tebow's Super Bowl ad isn't intolerant; its critics are.

I'll tell you something else, if 1/2 of what they say about this Tebow guy are true -- and I'm most interested in the 1/2 that says he's "saving himself for marriage" -- then I am even more impressed. He must have girls throwing themselves at him, and yet he's denying himself? I have as much admiration for that as I do for a young priest who takes and keeps his vows -- the same sort of respect I have for soldiers, police and firefighters who have been tested. Think about the power you can have in life through the respect that you can earn by the simply factor of controlling your own behavior. Remarkable.

I'll post the ads when I find them embeddable with decent sound.