On Duck Dynasty Who Adopted a Black Baby

March 10, 2022 Post a Comment

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GQ sends the states emails as shortly as they release their biggest stories online, and when CB and I received this GQ email this morn, both of us read the article outtakes with our mouths hanging open. To be off-white, neither CB or I watch Duck Dynasty. I know people who dearest the bear witness and recollect it's the best reality show always, and their ratings are through the roof and now all of the Duck Dynasty people are getting widespread coverage, like Us Weekly covers and network interviews. And before today, I never realized just how… conservative they are. So, kudos to GQ for getting Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson on the record about all of his beliefs, because seriously, OMG OMG OMG OMG. You can read the full GQ piece here. I'm but going to let Phil speak for himself (which seems to be what GQ did too):

Phil Robertson on his family and their faith:
"We're Bible-thumpers who merely happened to stop up on television… You lot put in your article that the Robertson family actually believes strongly that if the human race loved each other and they loved God, we would just be ameliorate off. Nosotros ought to merely be repentant, turn to God, and let's get on with it, and everything will turn around."

Phil on sin:
"Everything is blurred on what's right and what'due south wrong… Sin becomes fine… Showtime with homosexual behavior and just morph out from at that place. Bestiality, sleeping effectually with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men," he says. Then he paraphrases Corinthians: "Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won't inherit the kingdom of God. Don't deceive yourself. It'south not correct.. It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a human being—would be more than desirable than a man'south anus. That'due south just me. I'm simply thinking: At that place's more there! She'south got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I'1000 saying? But hey, sin: Information technology's not logical, my man. It's just non logical."

On his violent past:
During Phil's darkest days, in the early on 1970s, he had to flee the state of Arkansas after he badly beat up a bar owner and the guy's wife. Kay Robertson persuaded the bar possessor not to printing charges in exchange for near of the Robertsons' life savings. ("A hefty cost," he notes in his memoir.) I ask Phil if he ever repented for that, equally he wants America to apologize—if he ever tracked downwardly the bar owner and his wife to apologize for the assail. He shakes his head. "I didn't dredge anything back upward. I just put it behind me." Equally far as Phil is concerned, he was literally born once more. One-time Phil—the guy with the booze and the pills—died a long time ago, and New Phil sees no need to apologize for him: "We never, ever judge someone on who's going to heaven, hell. That's the Almighty'south chore. We just love 'em, give 'em the good news about Jesus—whether they're homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. Nosotros allow God sort 'em out afterward, you see what I'm saying?"

On the future of the show:
"Allow's confront it," he says. "Three, iv, 5 years, we're out of here. You lot know what I'chiliad proverb? It'southward a TV bear witness. This matter ain't gonna final forever. No way."

On sacrificing their privacy in order to spread the skilful discussion:
"For the sake of the Gospel, it was worth it… All you have to exercise is look at any gild where at that place is no Jesus. I'll requite you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their tape. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Whatsoever Jesus amongst them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. That's fourscore years of ideologies that have popped upward where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Only look at the records as far equally murder goes among those four groups."

On why he voted Romney in 2012:
"If I'm lost at three o'clock in a major metropolitan surface area…I ask myself: Where would I rather exist trying to walk with my wife and children? Ane of the guys who's running for president is out of Chicago, Illinois, and the other one is from Common salt Lake City, Utah. [Editor'south note: Romney is from Boston, not Salt Lake City.] Where would I rather be turned around at three o'clock in the morning? I opted for Salt Lake Urban center. I think it would be safer."

On growing upward in pre-civil-rights-era Louisiana:
"I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Non once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field…. They're singing and happy. I never heard ane of them, one blackness person, say, 'I tell y'all what: These doggone white people'—non a discussion!… Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you lot say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues."

[From GQ]

OOOOOOOOOOO.

And then… that merely happened. You lot know what? I alive in the South, and I practice think I have a college tolerance for these kinds of statements and conventionalities systems. All I can really say in defense of Duck Dynasty Phil is that he doesn't seem to be saying that all of the adulterers and homosexuals and drunks demand to be "dealt with" in real time. Now… that being said, JESUS CHRIST THIS IS OFFENSIVE. The farther Due south yous go, the more often you lot'll encounter preachers and fundamentalists who really get into the nitty-gritty of why they think homosexuality is wrong, and they have a giant list of all the people who are going to hell in a basket, and this just seems to exist Phil reiterating what he likely hears in church.

I don't even have the free energy to yell near the other crap. I'm genuinely offended by the "societies without Jesus" rant and his "civil rights injure black people" thesis. For the love of… ducks.

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