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  • Phil Robertson Stands By His Faith, Says Son Willie

    Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson stands by his faith, and his father.

    His dad, Phil Robertson, was famously suspended from the family’s hit A&E reality show in December after controversial comments he made about race and sexuality during a GQ Magazine interview.

    Willie and his wife, Korie, spoke about his dad during an interview with CNN‘s Kyra Phillips.

    “(Phil) made Christmas very interesting for us,” said Willie lightheartedly.

    Willie said he believed the GQ interviewer asked questions that would lead Phil to say what he did.

    According to Willie, the interviewer “had what he wanted to put, and he was specifically asking this and that.”

    “Phil just said what he thought, what was on his heart,” said Willie, defending his dad’s intentions.

    Willie conceded that his father “did some paraphrasing there,” referring to Phil’s comments while paraphrasing a verse from 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’s not right.”

    “You have to read the Bible and make up your own mind,” he said. “You have to decide, and God will ultimately decide then. We don’t profess to be God, and we certainly don’t profess to be perfect. Because we have our own sins that we deal with.”

    “I believe what the Bible says,” says Willie.

    Phil’s daughter-in-law, Korie, defended the family’s patriarch.

    “Anybody who knows (Phil) … any gay, straight, black, white, anybody who knows Phil knows that he is about love and his message is about God’s love, God’s grace and his forgiveness, ultimately,” Korie said.

    Ratings for the reality show have been declining in recent weeks, but the family doesn’t give it a second thought.

    “We were able to use that platform to get out God’s message, and if it ended right there, it ended right there,” Willie Robertson said. “I felt like that was pretty much what God prepared us to do.”

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  • ‘Duck Dynasty’ Patriarch Phil Robertson Breaks His Silence

    Hit A&E reality TV show Duck Dynasty has been all over the news this week after star frontrunner Phil Robertson caused quite an uproar that metastasized into a national controversy with his most recent comment.

    Robertson recently sat down with GQ Magazine, and the topic of his perspective on homosexuality came into the conversation. During the interview, he basically correlated homosexuality with bestiality

    “We’re Bible-thumpers who just happened to end up on television,” Robertson says in reference to his family’s television status. Then, Robertson went on to discuss is views on modern immorality, and things took a deft turn.

    “Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men,” Robertson tells the publication.

    Paraphrasing a Corinthians bible passage, he says, “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’s not right.”

    “It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”

    Many thought Robertson’s comments to be rather racist and offensive. However, Robertson has finally decided to respond to the claims made against his character due to his personal opinion. While most would have retracted the statement for the sake of publicity, Robertson is standing strong in his belief, and refuses to be deterred or coerced into an empty apology to save face.

    According to Fox News, Mail Online reported that Robertson actually allowed a reporter to sit in on a bible study session he taught yesterday at White’s Ferry Road Church of Christ. Robertson finally weighed on the recent debacle derived from his opinionated remarks.

    “I love all men and women” Robertson said, according to Mail Online. “I am a lover of humanity, not a hater.” When a member of the class thanked Robertson for saying what he said in the interview, he appeared to shrug it off, saying “I didn’t think much of it at all, but it seems a lot of other people did.”

    Robertson also shared his personal reaction to everyone’s disdain toward his comments. “I am just reading what was written over 2,000 years ago. Those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom. All I did was quote from the scriptures, but they just didn’t know it. Whether I said it, or they read it, what’s the difference? The sins are the same, humans haven’t changed.

    “If you give them the bad news, they’ll start kicking and screaming. But you love them more than you fear them, so you tell them.”

    Robertson casually went on with the bible study session ignoring all of the issues shrouded around his infamous comments. “Hope your week went well,” he said. “Ours was kinda’ slow.”

    Refusing to give any life or energy to the situation, Robertson concluded the session with a prayer, went on to indirectly address his view on retracting the statements. “I will not give or back off from my path because you conquered death, Father, so we are not worried about all the repercussions.”

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