(There are plenty of people yelling about free speech but…I mean, really?! That’s not the issue here. Predictably, he’s being demonized by the progressive left and martyred by the Christian right. GLAAD and the NAACP immediately protested to A&E and Phil has been suspended from the show. He also waxed poetic about the good old days of slavery.
Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men,” he says. “Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.
The part that has gotten him into hot water is when the author asks him what the human race has to repent about. There’s an article in the current GQ magazine about the family and Phil does most of the talking. Religion doesn’t play a very visible role on the show though. Phil is the patriarch of the family and he was born again as a Christian back in the 1970’s. It’s semi-scripted and follows the everyday lives of a family of self-described redneck bible thumpers who became rich by making really accurate duck calls (of all things).
#Phil robertson anti gay meme tv
Duck Dynasty airs on the A&E network and is the highest rated reality TV show, raking in over $400 million. I envied their sense of belonging to their land and to their family, which is so different from my own peripatetic life. The Robertson family fascinated me during the first season of Duck Dynasty. Phil Robertson of the Duck Dynasty reality show on A&E