Gene Simmons: If Tim Tebow Were Wearing a Burka, the Media Never Would Have Dared Joked About Him or Deemed Him "Controversial"

Now, this being Gene Simmons, of course he's got a business interest at play here: He and bandmate Starchild (right?) now co-own an arena football team called the LA KISS (good lord, they brand everything). And that team just offered Tim Tebow a three year contract. (Tebow hasn't responded but Simmons says Tebow's seriously considering the offer... which I don't know about. I suppose he'll seriously consider it after all NFL (and CFL and European Football) options are exhausted.)

That said, he's on the money.

“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.”

He goes on to opine that broadcasters who attack Tebow should lose their license for slandering someone's religion, which is wrong and boy howdy could I see such a rule being abused, but hey, it's Gene Simmons. He's not going to make sense for long.

But he did have a great paragraph in him.

Below, KISS explained (Content Warning for Profanity and Obscene Language and KISS' "Love Gun").

posted by Ace at 02:16 PM

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