For years, Tim Tebow has been working with state and federal officials to raise awareness to help get laws passed to end human trafficking and child pornography. It’s a cause that is super commendable–for sure. And he’s on the verge of success.

Just last month, legislation meant to strengthen investigations of sexually abusive images of children, called the Renewed Hope Act of 2026, that Tebow has collaborated on with Republican Florida Rep. Laurel Lee, was reintroduced and voted out of the Judiciary Committee and is now slated for a floor House vote. The big problem, however, is that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., has been made a prominent cosponsor of this measure.

On the surface this may seem like something we should celebrate, but it’s not. The reason is simple: Wasserman Schultz is a hypocrite and a far-left politician who has worked to advance a progressive agenda that is nothing short of being anti-parent and anti-family. That ideology is the culprit behind the rise of online child predators.

In fact, if America is ever going to truly abolish online child pornography, then lawmakers like Wasserman-Schultz need to get the boot and be voted out of office.

Instead, Tebow, has released a press release that hails Wasserman Schultz as a cosponsor; something she can brag about in her reelection bid.  

What’s more is that Wasserman Shultz hasn’t been mousey about her radical left positions. She has held top key leadership positions in the Democrat Party and has been at the forefront in using her leverage to oppose parental rights, support abortion, and further transgenderism.

Take for instance that in this current Congress she is a lead cosponsor of the so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act.” This legislation aims to advance abortion access that would in essence make Roe v. Wade the law of the land.

But perhaps most relevant to the issue at hand is that Wasserman Schultz not so long ago voted to prevent a parent’s right to review the curriculum of their child’s school and other materials available in the school library.

When the House of Representatives took up the Parents Bill of Rights Act in 2023, Wasserman Schultz joined with all Democrat members of Congress to oppose this bill which merely stated that the “right of parents to educate their children is a pre-political natural right that the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized as ‘beyond debate’ and rooted in the ‘history and culture of Western civilization.”

The measure also included a requirement that elementary and secondary schools for grades 5 to 8 would be forced to obtain permission from parents before marking their child’s “gender” as “transgender” — something that anyone who believes in protecting children should unequivocally support.  

In other words, Wasserman Schultz is on the side that is fighting against parental rights. She’s doing that even though parents are the key protectors for everywhere a child goes and everything they do, whether in or out of school or online.

Going a step further: the reason that children are being sexually targeted at school and online like never before in our nation’s history is one hundred percent a result of the far left policies that Wasserman Schultz supports.  

Not only did Wasserman Schultz vote in Congress against parents’ rights, but in her own home state of Florida she evidently took a stance to oppose Gov. Ron DeSantis’ leadership to have pornographic and sexually explicit material removed from school libraries.

She also headlined for a gig called “My Hollywood Pride street festival event” which included a drag queen story hour.

There’s no doubt that Tebow is a Godly man who has the best of intentions. And it’s a pretty good guess that behind the scenes he was convinced by typical Washington establishment types to believe that adding Wasserman Schultz’s name in support of the Renewed Hope for Act will help ensure its passage.

But that’s not true.

House Republicans control the majority, and therefore, Wasserman Schultz is not needed to pass this legislation. Just the opposite. She’s the one who needs to add her name to this measure to help her in her congressional reelection bid to balance out her radical pro-transgender policy record.

In other words, by allowing Wasserman Schultz to take credit for adding her name as a cosponsor, Tebow and Republicans are throwing Wasserman Schultz a lifeline so that she can continue to support policies hostile to the family.

So even if Wasserman Schultz was a cosponsor in a previous Congress–and maybe even before Tim Tebow got involved–he still could have insisted that this time around her name not be added as condition for his endorsement.

It’s worth noting that another consequence of Wasserman Schultz being made a lead cosponsor is that she will be granted the ability to have influence over how this measure gets implemented should it become law–a very real possibility.

That means that on one of the core functions of this measure to create a taskforce to work with the Department of Homeland Security on investigations, Wasserman Schultz will have a voice in picking the names of those individuals who will no doubt align with her leftist ideology.

It’s great that Tebow is using his celebrity status to fight for the protection of children. But this is an example of what happens all too often with conservatives: the miscalculation in thinking that the only way to get anything accomplished is to make bedfellows with the other side. Time and time again it comes back to bite us.

Tebow should use his leverage to only elevate lawmakers who support parental rights, the very cure for the cause he is fighting for. 

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