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

[Vanyel]

Nuns are the Brides of Christ.

Jesus is a Polygamist.

I know you're being sarcastic, Nuns and Priests are (supposed to be any way) married to God so as to be chaste and devote their lives entirely to God.

Just a little aside, I'm sure Conservative Catholics, and Conservatives in general, are combing through Pope Francis' history to find ANY tiny, unsubstantiated hint of a scandal for Faux News to run 24/7 and make a mountain out of a molehill.

 

[Admiral2]

Nuns are the Brides of Christ.

Jesus is a Polygamist.

I know you're being sarcastic, Nuns and Priests are (supposed to be any way) married to God so as to be chaste and devote their lives entirely to God.

Just a little aside, I'm sure Conservative Catholics, and Conservatives in general, are combing through Pope Francis' history to find ANY tiny, unsubstantiated hint of a scandal for Faux News to run 24/7 and make a mountain out of a molehill.

Who needs to dig? He's already come straight out and said "Lay off gays, they never did anything to you." That's ten weeks of good conservative talk radio right there.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Jesus never consummated any of his many, many, many marriages.

That is usually grounds for an annulment.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Well, I call into play again the hooplah over The Dixie Chicks and all of the flack/boycotting they got after criticizing George Bush. It seemed like the Conservative Media was all over tearing them down and ending their careers which they pretty much did.

But they never really suffered; the group don't want millions of fans anyway, just a small number who would support them and get what they're saying:

Martie Maguire:"I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do."

Taking the Long Way debuted at number one on both the U.S. pop albums chart and the U.S. country albums chart, selling 526,000 copies in the first week (the year's second-best such total for any country act) and making it a gold record within its first week, despite having little or no airplay in areas that had once embraced them. The Chicks became the first female band in chart history to have three albums debut at No. 1.

As for the group, they're on hiatus anyway, so to them it doesn't matter.

 

[Cutter John]

I've come to the conclusion from all this that hate and anger are the only thing Republicans/Conservatives understand anymore.

As for Phil, you know after getting a pass on this he's only going to get worse. Expect even more outrageous comments in the months to come. With any luck, A&E will give him enough rope to hang himself.

 

[sttngfan1701d]

They're all going on Fox Noise to discuss the situation. Great. There's going to be more faux-outrage by the Fox talking heads and more misinformation spread about how Phil's freedom of speech was under attack and how being Christian in this country now makes people a target for the media. Rinse, repeat.

These people wouldn't get the point if you strapped them to a chair and explained to them the difference between federal law infringing on speech and the policies of an employer/employee relationship and a CONTRACT that Phil signed, much less anything else. They're like children who think they've done nothing wrong.

 

[Manticore]

They're all going on Fox Noise to discuss the situation. Great. There's going to be more faux-outrage by the Fox talking heads and more misinformation spread about how Phil's freedom of speech was under attack and how being Christian in this country now makes people a target for the media. Rinse, repeat.

These people wouldn't get the point if you strapped them to a chair and explained to them the difference between federal law infringing on speech and the policies of an employer/employee relationship and a CONTRACT that Phil signed, much less anything else. They're like children who think they've done nothing wrong.

No, they know exactly what they're doing.

 

[cooleddie74]

These are the people who get outraged and fill hours' worth of airtime complaining about Janet Jackson's momentarily-exposed breast at the Super Bowl Halftime Show but believe a company temporarily suspending an employee on a voluntary contract for saying anti-gay and racially-loaded comments is a violation of fundamental Constitutional rights and a sign of how traditional conservatives are being hunted down and persecuted. I'd say "unbelievable," but it's par for the course from the gang who thinks even basic background checks for gun purchases are the first step on the road to communist tyranny by Kenyans with fake birth certificates.

It's all part of the patented Right-Wing Indignation Machine, powered by the fine folks at Durafail™.

 

[TheSeeker]

This guy is a real charmer.

Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson may not believe in equal marriage for gays — but he’s all for marrying teenage girls.

“You’ve got to marry these girls when they’re about 15 or 16,” Robertson said in a 2009 speech. “You need to check with mom and dad about that, of course.”

LINK

 

[cooleddie74]

Ah, yes. The prestigious Ted Nugent School of Marital Bliss (Wango Tango Campus East).

Bag 'em, bang 'em and pay off their parents.

 

[Trekker4747]

Make sure you get to 'em early! You don't want them developing personalities, opinions of their own or learnin' things.

 

[Cutter John]

These are the people who get outraged and fill hours' worth of airtime complaining about Janet Jackson's momentarily-exposed breast at the Super Bowl Halftime Show but believe a company temporarily suspending an employee on a voluntary contract for saying anti-gay and racially-loaded comments is a violation of fundamental Constitutional rights and a sign of how traditional conservatives are being hunted down and persecuted.

This is the same group who's okay with someone being fired because they're gay, had nude pictures osted online, had an abortion, or voted democrat. "Its a businessowners right!"

Fecking hypocrites.

 

[Keith1701]

it's a pity the so call Christians who claim persecution over such incidents tend not to be toletant when the shoe is on tbe on the other foot.

if a gay person tv personality had said something about Christians, it would be a lead story on fox news and their would be demands for firing (not to mention death threats).

yep hypocrisy at it's finest.

I agree if we as Christians stand up for what we believe is right, we are always wrong.

 

[Manticore]

it's a pity the so call Christians who claim persecution over such incidents tend not to be toletant when the shoe is on tbe on the other foot.

if a gay person tv personality had said something about Christians, it would be a lead story on fox news and their would be demands for firing (not to mention death threats).

yep hypocrisy at it's finest.

I agree if we as Christians stand up for what we believe is right, we are always wrong.

When you stand up for the marginalization of an entire group of people for purely religious grounds, you. are. wrong.

 

[shivkala]

it's a pity the so call Christians who claim persecution over such incidents tend not to be toletant when the shoe is on tbe on the other foot.

if a gay person tv personality had said something about Christians, it would be a lead story on fox news and their would be demands for firing (not to mention death threats).

yep hypocrisy at it's finest.

I agree if we as Christians stand up for what we believe is right, we are always wrong.

Not true, I believe Christians like Pastor Ronald Garner are far from wrong.

In fact, Christian or not (full disclosure, I am Jewish), I believe everyone should read Pastor Garner's blog, as it shows a side to Christianity other than the vocal majority. Unfortunately, he hasn't posted to it since May 2012, but I like to read it every once in a while to remind myself there are Christians who preach love and tolerance.

 

[sttngfan1701d]

I agree if we as Christians stand up for what we believe is right, we are always wrong.

When you stand up for the marginalization of an entire group of people for purely religious grounds, you. are. wrong.

Especially since Jesus never mentioned homosexuality himself.

And you're basing your opinion of its "deviance" on a book written thousands of years ago, written during a time in which someone could be killed for working on a Sunday. Think about that in modern terms. A guy who mows his lawn, does his taxes, paints a fence, organizes his bookshelf on a Sunday, or maybe works in the office on weekends....DEATH!

How much sense does that make?

Exactly.

Use common sense. Gays aren't harming you in any way. Why not just do what Jesus preached and....*gasp!* accept people as they are? Instead, you are standing up for taking away their rights because an ancient book says they're icky (but doesn't mention lesbians! Oh no!)

 

[bigdaddy]

Even the Pope is like "There are much worse things in the world to worry about that same sex fucking". Obviously paraphrasing.

But why listen to the Pope, he's not white and the crazies feel they don't need to listen to him.

 

[IndyJones]

I agree if we as Christians stand up for what we believe is right, we are always wrong.

Surely you see the difference between someone saying, "I believe X," and someone saying, "I believe X, and we should legislate that so everyone is subject to my own beliefs, whether they share them or not." Right?

Right?

 

[cooleddie74]

Standing up for one's beliefs isn't objectionable if said beliefs aren't deliberately harmful and destructive to other human beings and their rights. It's when those shady, counterproductive beliefs get enacted into law and millions of complete strangers suffer the negative consequences that I and a whole lot of others have some serious problems with them.

One can be a deeply religious person and not be a willing exploiter or predator of the weak, downtrodden and those deemed to be different from that person.

 

[shivkala]

This was posted to George Takei's Facebook page today, it sums up everything we've been trying to say in this thread, but maybe seeing it in graphic form will get it through to those who have ignored our words: