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A&E Taking Heat For Suspending 'Duck Dynasty's' Phil Robertson

I really wonder if gay haters imagine all LGBT's to be real life Dr. Frank N. Furters. Throwing outrageous parties and seducing god fearing people.
 
sojourner said:
I really wonder if gay haters imagine all LGBT's to be real life Dr. Frank N. Furters. Throwing outrageous parties and seducing god fearing people.
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They're not? They don't have mind altering super powers that make people gay? That they come from regular house holds and are indistinguishable from anyone else? :eek:
 
North Pole Myk said:
IndyJones said:
Shilliam Watner said:
Robertson reminds me of old testament prophets. Speaking truth to “power” and standing fast on God’s word, God’s strength and God’s protection.
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If homosexuality is so important, why didn't Jesus find any time to talk about it?
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He was too busy hanging out with guys and bumming a place to stay off his rich friends.
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He did say he'd turn the guys who hung with him into fishers of men... hmmm... sounds suspicious.
 
The funny thing is that conservatives, almost universally, are champions of "at-will" employment laws that allow companies to fire any employee at any time for any reason.

And yet, when A&E exercises it right to fire an employee who publicly harmed their image, conservatives are upset about it? What happened to their love of the free market? To the conservative mantra that businesses should be free to operate however they damn well please in the best interests of their profit margins?

The conservative hypocrisy on this issue is just stunning on so many levels. It's only slightly more stunning than their total lack of understanding on what the First Amendment actually says.
 
Trekker4747 said:
You know, I think we *do* need something like Jim Crow laws brought back. Closed-minded bigots and people who're looking to a future should be separated. I don't want to use a water fountain after some idiot who hates an entire group of people simply because who they prefer to love.
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Bigotry goes both ways.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot

a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)
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So you, and others that put down religious groups and the ideas expressed by those religious, are also Bigots.
 
Brent said:
Bigotry goes both ways.
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Intolerance of intolerance is no vice.

Do you think that arguing against racism is as bad as arguing against equal rights for all races?

No? Then shove that argument, because that dog don't hunt.
 
OK.... So here's your Freedom of Speech. You guys ready?

Phil Robertson has the Freedom of Speech. GQ asks him what is sin is. He answers honestly and says that he believes that homosexuality is a sin. He's entitled to that opinion. He's free to say that.

A&E says, we don't want people speaking for us who think homosexuality is a sin.

So, Freedom of Speech at work here.

The Robertsons can take their show to another network. Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the Press to, if I conclude correctly.

And you know what, those of you who think Phil has been shafted? You have the freedom to boycott A&E.

Really, if you ask me, since Barack Ostalinma hasn't denounced anyone, had them locked up, or had them killed, EVERYONE'S Freedom of Speech has been served.
 
So after everything, it appears this whole thing might just be a tempest in a teapot:
It looks like Phil Robertson's suspension from "Duck Dynasty" may be just for show. Entertainment Weekly learned that on Jan. 15, A&E will begin airing new episodes of the show that include scenes featuring the "Dynasty" patriarch.
"The network also hopes the media and fan furor will cool down over the holidays and that tensions over shooting future episodes can then be resolved," Entertainment Weekly reports. “There’s no negotiation to have; we’re doing the show,” an inside source told them.
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To recount everything we've "learned" (please note the following is being posted in a sarcastic manner. Shivkala accepts no responsibility for replies made assuming he is being serious.):
  • Good Christians like Phil Robertson are free to say what they want, no matter how offensive
  • Any attempt by a private company to affect his livelihood is an attack on his free speech and is worse than his comments about people's lifestyles
  • All non-Christians and/or gay rights supports should accept his right to say what he wants
  • Furthermore, any attempts by these individuals or groups to complain about Phil's comments should be met with all the backlash good Christians can muster
  • Said backlash should be praised, while any backlash Phil receives should be condemned
  • Suspending Phil is an attack on his right to support his family.
  • This is true even if said suspension is more for show than anything else, as the network will continue to air episodes with Phil in them and is committed to continuing to make new episodes with Phil in it
  • The public was right to boycott and complain about the Dixie Chicks in the early 2000's after they bashed then President Bush. And, since Obama still can't provide a birth certificate that die-hard Birthers believe is authentic, we should all recognize that GWB is still the legal President of America. Love it or leave it. As long as "Love it" means you love everything good, decent, Christian, and Conservative about it. You are not mandated and in fact should not love anything non-Christian, Gay, Liberal, etc. about it, because those people should just leave and go back to Kenya where Obama and presumably they, too, are from
  • 'Murrica!
 
To that there is only one reply I can think of: [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IIrf_JSuQk[/yt]
 
Of course homosexuality is determined to be a sin by Christianity.

That's old news.

What happened here was putting homosexual love side by side with bestiality.

Well, he was talking about a slippery slope, but it's still quite bad.

Lets see how this works with substitution.

(I am not talking about about anyone in particular.)

Example: "I think your love for your mother is like having sex with farm animals".

No. That is not flattering.

There are very few things in the universe that can be favourably compared to bestiality.

Example: "Scoring a perfect game in bowling is just like impregnating a chicken."

I do not believe those two sensations are in theory similar, although I have never bowled a perfect game.

Meanwhile if we want to be actually adhering to Leviticus (Leviticus 11:12.).

"Homosexuality is like eating shellfish."

Which is scripturally true, but still, not exactly flattering.
 
I found the slippery slope comments to be a little bizarre. But, then again, he's in Louisiana. I suppose they might have problems with that down there. Maybe in Louisiana laying down with a sheep like a woman is as prevalent as laying down with another man like a woman.
 
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