How I Met Your Mother actor Neil Patrick Harris and CBS have caught the attention of the far-right reaching website WorldNet for an ad depicting the actor with “black eye” wear showing the date of the big game.
Writer Joe Kovacs attacks CBS and Harris, who is openly gay, saying that both the actor and the network are attacking Jets quarterback Tim Tebow, who regularly showcases Bible verses on his eyewear.
“New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow won’t be playing in this year’s Super Bowl.
But CBS, the television network airing the big game this year, is now using an outspoken homosexual actor to mimic Tim Tebow’s style of trumpeting messages in eyeblack on his face,” Kovacs writes on the site.
Even though Bible verses have been shown on eye black by religious football players for decades, the site attacks Harris for having an agenda and mocking those with religious beliefs.
The writer goes on to say that some people just “don’t like that a homosexual” would be used to promote the biggest game on the planet.
Harris, 39, is married and is raising two children with his husband.
The Super Bowl airs on Feb. 3 on CBS.
