In a bid to woo the evangelical vote Ted Cruz wheeled out Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Sunday, to warm up the crowd ahead of his address. CNN Wire reported that Robertson made a forceful case to voters that the Texas senator could restore the U.S. to biblical principles and called gay marriage “evil” and “wicked.”…
To the chagrin of many in the audience, Phil Robertson was honored at commencement ceremonies held last Saturday at Louisiana Tech University which caused outrage and walk-outs over the awarding of the schools prestigious Tower Medallion award to the Duck Dynasty patriarch, reality star and preacher. The announcement, made less than 24 hours before, had…
I wish we in the LGBT community were better at speaking to Christian conservatives in language that they could relate and connect to. When the “tenants of Christian faith” card is played with regards to the lives of LGBT Americans, we in the community generally don’t respond to these charges in a way that religious…
CBS 5 – KPHO Believe it or not, there is a new movement that has been set up to support Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson. HuffPost Gay Voices reports that the latest development to stem from Robertson’s homophobic and racist comments in a recent GQ profile and subsequent suspension from A&E, an unnamed group has…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign and the NAACP, have sent a letter to A+E President and Chief Executive Officer Nancy Dubuc, calling on her to disavow the racist and homophobic comments made by Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson. In a recent GQ interview, Robertson said that African Americans were happier during the era of…
Media Matters for America’s latest post reveals Fox News Radio reporter Todd Starnes has defended homophobic remarks made by a star of the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty, blasting “intolerant, anti-Christian,” and “Anti-Straight” “haters” for deigning to criticize the comments. In an interview with GQ, Duck Dynasty‘s Phil Robertson called homosexuality a sin, comparing it to bestiality and equating gay people…
WASHINGTON – In a recent interview with GQ magazine, the star of A&E’s hit Duck Dynasty called homosexuality a sin, and equated it with promiscuity and bestiality. In the remarks, for the magazine’s January 2014 issue, Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson says sin “Start[s] with homosexual behavior and just morph[s] out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with…
