‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Suspended After Comparing Homosexuality to Bestiality
Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson is in a lot of trouble today after basically telling GQ magazine he thinks homosexuality is dy-nasty.
The 67-year-old from Louisiana sat down for an extremely controversial interview with GQ. During the interview, he spoke a lot about homosexuality and he didn’t hold back his feelings,
“It seems like, to me, a vagina — as a man — would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”
If he would have just stopped there, he probably would have been fine. But Robertson didn’t stop there, he took it one step too far when he was asked what he considered sinful,
[more…]“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.”
This made a lot of people extremely angry. GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign spoke out against Robertson’s comments and several people asked A&E to remove him from the show.
Well, those people got their wish. The network released the following statement to Entertainment Weekly,
“We are extremely disappointed to have read Phil Robertson’s comments in GQ, which are based on his own personal beliefs and are not reflected in the series Duck Dynasty. His personal views in no way reflect those of A+E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community. The network has placed Phil under hiatus from filming indefinitely.”
Will he ever be back on the show? Who knows. I’ve never watched the show, so I can’t pretend to know a lot about the Duck Dynasty crew. However, everything I have heard about them has always been good.
Several former employees for the show have stated that the Duck Dynasty cast were always polite to them, even if they did prefer the anus over the vagina.
And a lot of websites aren’t showing you his full quote, in which he states that he loves everybody,
““We never, ever judge someone on who’s going to heaven, hell. That’s the Almighty’s job. We just love ’em, give ’em the good news about Jesus—whether they’re homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. We let God sort ’em out later, you see what I’m saying?”
Should he have said what he did? Probably not. I understand everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but he has to know his opinion is an outdated one. It’s an opinion that not a lot of people agree with anymore, and it’s an opinion that makes a lot of people angry.
He had to know he would get some heat for it.
