From: Independent Institute
by David Theroux
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by David Theroux
With A&E Network facing an avalanche of public protest and in
just over one week of its decision to place family-patriarch Phil
Robertson on “indefinite hiatus” from its megahit reality series Duck Dynasty, the network caved.
When the PC outrage industry went into high gear
with an angry Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
demanding Robertson’s head regarding his comments on homosexuality in an
article by Drew Magery in the January 2014 issue of GQ (the magazine commonly viewed as having branded the concept of “metrosexual”),
A&E executives promptly suspended Robertson from the enormously
popular, cable-TV program, and support for his suspension echoed
throughout the conventional media with cries of his being “homophobic”
and “antigay.”
In the article, when asked about his religious faith, Robertson noted
that his own youthful debauchery was self-destructive and put his
marriage on the rocks, and that these were reversed only by his
conversion to Christianity. He added that he now considers sexual
relations other than those between a man and woman in wedlock to be
sinful. In so doing, Robertson did not support bans on
homosexual advocacy or relations but instead paraphrased Corinthians:
“Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male
prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the
slanderers, the swindlers — they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t
deceive yourself. It’s not right.”
In subsequent comments, he included himself as a “sexual sinner”:
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