RE: 646,000 likes on Facebook Page to boycott A&E until Phil Robertson is back on the air.

dumb wrote:

blfsrfr wrote:

Dear A&E congratulations, you just committed suicide.

http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/12/19/dear-ae-congratulations-you-just-committed-suicide/

"You punished the Christian guy for being a Christian"

No, they punished the Christian guy for making bigoted statements in public media. It was completely tangential to his Christian beliefs. Believe it or not, many people are Christian but not bigoted.

so in order to pass the bigot test, one must publicly endorse homo ass-sex when given the opportunity to do so? If you happen to believe certain sexual behavior is harmful, you're a bigot?

That attitude is why A&E has their as$ in a crack right now..

Please cite a specific quote of Phil's 'hateful speech'.

1.5 million

https://www.facebook.com/Philrobertsonsupport

Boomhauer is schooling these libby/pc tools.

I'm sick of these culture wars in America. I'm sick of "values voters" electing politicians based on so-called "social issues". I'm sick of turning on the news and hearing some stupid controversy about fags or teaching evolution in school or contraception or what Lady Gaga tweeted about animal rights or whatever the **** is the latest newsworthy story. I'm an Agnostic, but I would rather have grown up in America at its founding, back when the nation was 96% Protestant and there weren't a million trivial issues to divide us. We can't agree on anything anymore. The leftists have successfully divided the nation by creating all these fake controversies. They keep harping on the mythical "War on Women" to try and gather more Hillary voters for 2016. Anyone who doesn't believe in gay marriage is "homophobic." Blah blah. Duck Dynasty ... Who even watches that show? I don't know any intelligent person who watches TV shows.

Walker Red wrote:

I work for a Fortune 50 corporation if any employee at my company said anything remotely similar as this individual that person would be fired shortly thereafter. I am sure A&E has similar policies thus the suspension. If you work for a company with similar policies and you do not agree with them you should quit. Stand by your intolerant beliefs and put your money where your mouth is.

Calling BS on this one. You're saying that if two employees on their own time, away from the work environment, went to the local abortion clinic, and one protested against killing unborn children and the other protested for killing unborn children that one of the two would automatically be fired?

Unless these employees had clauses in their contract stating that they had to be supportive of the company's policies on abortion, etc. (whatever that might be), there's no way they're getting fired.

It would be a different story if the above two employees though started handing out pamphlets in the office and shoving their beliefs in everyone's faces (like gays tend to do), in which case they would deserve to be fired.

Phil was not on the set harassing his fellow actors and crew. He was on his own time expressing his own views, which until the Liberals finish turning the US into a Nazi nation is still a constitutionally protected right.

jeffrey d. boomhauer wrote:

you're pretty fuc&ed if you can't tell the difference between publicly ranting someone should sh&t in someone's mouth and someone stating their opinion on sexual behavior..

And you're pretty fuc&ed if you can't discern that likening homosexuality to bestiality is every bit as offensive as Bashir's comments are.

jeffrey d. boomhauer wrote:

so in order to pass the bigot test, one must publicly endorse homo ass-sex when given the opportunity to do so? If you happen to believe certain sexual behavior is harmful, you're a bigot?

That attitude is why A&E has their as$ in a crack right now..

I know you are arguing disingenuously as usual, but no:

1) It should be obvious that "endorsing homo ass-sex" is not the same thing as "refraining from making bigoted statements".

2) He did not merely "believe certain sexual behavior is harmful" which is his right to do, he compared gays to adulterers, alcoholics, and criminals.

Phil's comments come directly from the Bible. From what I have read he was paraphrasing these different passages.

Romans 1:20-32

New International Version (NIV)

20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

New International Version (NIV)

9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

I also like to add in this passage as a reminder to Christians.

Luke 6:27-31

New International Version (NIV)

Love for Enemies

27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. 31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.

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35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Walter Peck wrote:

Just because you have the right to say something doesn't mean you should.

But it doesn't mean you can't.

Pecky Walter wrote:

Walter Peck wrote:

Just because you have the right to say something doesn't mean you should.

But it doesn't mean you can't.

No, it doesn't mean you/he/she can't .. it does mean that if your comments pi** off the person who writes your check, you might lose your gig.

I have a different take on this. It's a marketing bonanza for Duck Dynasty and A&E. It will driver viewership for the upcoming Duck marathon through the roof. I'd guess it would be twice as large as previously anticipated. Sponsors will benefit from the doubled viewership.

The Ducks will benefit by selling millions of dollars of t-shirts, pajamas, camos, caps, and other promotional gear right now during the peak sales season. I was in WalMart today and their gear was EVERYWHERE.

Before filming starts again, A&E will walk this back, Phil will "apologize" in one of those non-apologies that are carefully written and blessed by the PR staff.

A&E will benefit.

Sponsors will benefit.

The Duck empire will benefit.

P.T. Barnum would have been proud...

He goes on to say that homosexuals are full of "murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, god-haters. They are heartless. They are faithless. They are senseless. They are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil."

Yeah... the guy is a real class act.. no wonder conservatives love em

Let me get this straight...1.5 million people took the time to hit like, not that they will actually boycott A&E, but they just hit like, which costs them nothing, and you think this is meaningful to compare it to something that cost people money? You sir, are an idiot.

total lskjdfslkf wrote:

1.5 million. 4 times more than the number of people who signed up for Obama care in 3 months, hahahahahahahaha

What! So I am not allowed to generalize and stereotype but Phil can? Hmmm.

duck die nasty wrote:

get used to it. wrote:

Oh, I bash the religion because the people who follow it are hypocritical at best, and because they believe things that are written in a book told from accounts of centuries past, put together by a group of people who felt like they needed something to bind religions together, and they call it inspired by God to make it unchallengable.

So every person who follows Christianity is hypocritical at best? Every single one? Hmm, sounds like a generalization to me, maybe even, dare I say it, a stereotype? I usually try to avoid broadly classifying groups of people based on their sexuality, ethnicity, religion etc.

I haven't seen those comments; where does he say that?

"Dumb Dynasty". Note to ignorant conservatives: the big businesses that you so love and protect and shower with tax breaks have every right to do what they want with the show, whether it means taking old goofball off the air for a while or whatever. A&E bankrolled the show, made the family super rich, and now the family complains about being made so rich. Only in the US.

right here... lot's of new videos and tapes making the roundshttp://www.heavy.com/entertainment/2013/12/watch-new-phil-robertson-video-homophobia/the guy is nothing more than your garden variety racist, sexist, homophobic, bigot who will complain about being victimized. conservatives love to think of themselves as victims, always the victim. funny how they can refuse even a semblance of personal responsibility.

wtfunny wrote:

I haven't seen those comments; where does he say that?

and he evidently likes em young (like his idol lil rushy limpbaugh)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBzOjcqWWkA

You gotta marry these girls when they're 15 or 16, they'll pick your ducks.