{"id":1820847,"date":"2023-01-23T16:34:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820847"},"modified":"2023-01-23T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:36:18","slug":"america-needs-more-unapologetic-christians-like-tony-dungy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-needs-more-unapologetic-christians-like-tony-dungy\/","title":{"rendered":"America Needs More Unapologetic Christians Like Tony Dungy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerica-needs-more-unapologetic-christians-like-tony-dungy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820847&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Former NFL head coach Tony Dungy made his first-ever appearance at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Friday, and predictably, Twitter\u2019s leftist blue checkmark brigade is out in full force demanding he be canceled for it. <\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyDungy\/status\/1616072134559760386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1616072134559760386%7Ctwgr%5E53e8746cceed250c110c07903dc249fd4ae95378%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2023%2F01%2F20%2Fnfl-tony-dungy-march-for-life-backlash%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeting<\/a> Dungy had announced that he and his wife were attending the annual gathering for pro-lifers on Thursday morning. But Dungy, a outspoken Christian, was soon the victim of left-wing activists disguised as journalists. Within hours of Dungy\u2019s announcement, The Nation\u2019s sports editor, Dave Zirin, published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/tony-dungy-march-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> accusing the co-host of NBC\u2019s \u201cFootball Night in America\u201d Of being a \u201cright-wing zealot\u201d  \u201canti-gay bigot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDungy should feel shame. Instead, he is emboldened, ready to take the stage at a rally that\u2019s been a blunt instrument for robbing people of their rights to privacy and the rights to their own bodies,\u201d Zirin wrote, adding that NBC and the NFL\u2019s \u201csilence speaks volumes. It\u2019s a silence that\u2019s \u2026 almost as loud as the thousands of people descending upon Washington\u2014some mandatorily\u2014to celebrate a fascistic, discredited Supreme Court and the loss of our rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keith Olbermann, a former sportswriter and grown man-child, decided to add his irrelevant opinion to the mix. He called for NBC Sports&#8217; firing of Dungy for attending the annual sporting event. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear @nbcsports \u2013 if you have any remaining concern for your operational reputation, fire Tony Dungy now. He is using you,\u201d Olbermann <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithOlbermann\/status\/1616459729525706753?s=20&#038;t=nPRxikD4GuoerfywNtesXQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demanded<\/a> In melodramatic fashion. <\/p>\n<p>Dungy spoke in front of pro-lifers at March, Dungy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/nfl\/nfl-legend-tony-dungy-recalls-damar-hamlin-reaction-in-march-for-life-speech-people-started-praying\/ar-AA16ztoC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">evoked<\/a> the collapse of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, specifically pointing to the power of prayer and God\u2019s use of football \u201cto shine some light on the subject of life for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn unbelievable thing happened that night. A professional football game with millions of dollars of ticket money and advertising money on the line \u2013 that game was canceled. Why? Because a life was at stake, and people wanted to see that life saved,\u201d Dungy stated. \u201cThat should be encouraging to us, because that\u2019s exactly why we\u2019re here today because every day in this country, innocent lives are at stake. The only difference is they don\u2019t belong to a famous athlete, and they\u2019re not seen on national TV. But those lives are still important to God and in God\u2019s eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former NFL coach Tony Dungy invokes Damar Hamlin\u2019s cardiac arrest as he calls on Americans to pray for an end to abortion:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day in this country, innocent lives are at stake. The only difference is they don\u2019t belong to a famous athlete, and they\u2019re not seen on national TV.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RR6G6c5VfE\">pic.twitter.com\/RR6G6c5VfE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1616494448975745041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2023<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The backlash against his appearance at this year\u2019s March for Life rally isn\u2019t the first time Dungy has faced hatred from miserable leftists over his religious views. In 2018, Dungy, the ex-Colts head coach at Indianapolis, was criticised for not being a good example of a Christian leader. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tony-dungy-attacked-comments-nick-foles-christian-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a> on live television that then-Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles would play well in the Super Bowl \u201cbecause his Christian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dungy&#8217;s unapologetic devotion to Christ when faced with attacks on his faith is something Christians should seek to mimic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1820850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5374,7072,15767,13664,16164],"class_list":["post-1820847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-america","tag-christians","tag-dungy","tag-tony","tag-unapologetic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}