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beezzer
amazing
Then he went on to say that black people were better off when they didn't have the same rights as white people. How do you define that? I'm not making stuff up here. You need to pay attention to what that hateful man is saying. Seriously. It's not okay.
Can you find the source for me? I'd like to see how he said that.
amazing
beezzer
amazing
Then he went on to say that black people were better off when they didn't have the same rights as white people. How do you define that? I'm not making stuff up here. You need to pay attention to what that hateful man is saying. Seriously. It's not okay.
Can you find the source for me? I'd like to see how he said that.
Just google it. He's all over the internet on the latest article and interview on GQ to one he gave back in 2010. Can't remember where he gave that. Very easy to find. The man's a scumbag. Truth, brother. Deny ignorance.
Here's one quoted source.
"Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. They're full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant God haters. They are heartless. They are faithless. They are senseless. They are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil." -- Speaking at the 2010 Wild Game Supper in Pottstown, Pa
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
So it was "implied" by the author that he thought that way. The author "inferred" it.
amazing
reply to post by Fylgje
It's a not a competition for right against left and just so you know I'm a registered independent voter...too embarrassed by either party to identify myself as such.
He said what he said and that's that. He said black people were better off before civil rights and he said homosexual behavior led to bestiality and worse in some of his other statements. That's hateful and stupid. I don't call southerners inbred. I'm calling out one man for his atrocious attitude and statements and wondering why everyone is defending him, because he calls himself a Christian? it's pathetic.
Ollie769
I'm glad someone mentioned the fact that an A&E rep was present at the GQ interview. It's beginning to look like this is another lie that the holier-than-thou gay PC police are foisting on the world's consciousness. From the poor sot that was murdered in Wyoming years ago ostensibly because he was homosexual whose name became a rallying call, but it turns out he was just a drug dealer, to the waitress that forged the receipt belonging to a totally innocent family saying they refused her a tip because of her lifestyle. One poster somewhere in these threads wrote that the gay community is shot through with something like, paraphrasing here, over exuberant animosity or something close to that. Yeah, that's being pretty charitable IMHO. GLAAD has had a huge backlash over this idiocy. Hopefully it will set them back years if they keep it up.
The right of free speech, in the United States, is specific to government controls or intervention. Specific to free speech, the first amendment guarantees the government will make no laws abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. This has no application in the private sector.
Every person engaging in an entertainment contract, sports contract, or high-profile corporate position will have numerous clauses the define certain behaviors, some of which pertain to public expression of controversial ideas… especially in entertainment contracts. You can be certain that those appearing on-screen in A&E's Duck Dynasty had numerous clauses (as has been reported in the media) that define public behavior… and that Phil's comments in an on-the-record interview with an international magazine broke those clauses.
This is not a freedom of speech issue Anyone couching it as such is being deceptive.
He is being punished for breaking an agreement with the network.
antonia
reply to post by FlyersFan
Well, you nailed it. People only want people fired when it offends their side. Personally, I would have fired Bashir and I don't like Palin either. That was just a tacky, ignorant thing to say. As for Phil, I think i'd have to weigh the numbers. I doubt too many gay men are hooked on duck dynasty, but Mad Men and Walking dead also air on the channel. A boycott could come and I wouldn't want to be parted with my dollars.edit on 19-12-2013 by antonia because: opps
hotintexas
No, Antonia, Mad Men and Walking Dead ARE NOT on A & E. They are on AMC, so this will not hurt the viewership of those two shows one iota.
jhn7537
Not my words, this post was made by Skeptic Overlord on another thread. I think it fits beautifully here..
Skeptic Overlords words
The right of free speech, in the United States, is specific to government controls or intervention. Specific to free speech, the first amendment guarantees the government will make no laws abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. This has no application in the private sector.
Every person engaging in an entertainment contract, sports contract, or high-profile corporate position will have numerous clauses the define certain behaviors, some of which pertain to public expression of controversial ideas… especially in entertainment contracts. You can be certain that those appearing on-screen in A&E's Duck Dynasty had numerous clauses (as has been reported in the media) that define public behavior… and that Phil's comments in an on-the-record interview with an international magazine broke those clauses.
This is not a freedom of speech issue Anyone couching it as such is being deceptive.
He is being punished for breaking an agreement with the network.
So, for those who want to state his civic rights were violated, that's not true in this case...edit on 22-12-2013 by jhn7537 because: (no reason given)
nightmare_david
I am surprised at how many people still haven't read the full article. Keep saying he compared homosexuality to beastialty and that he attacked blacks. Every time you say that it proves you didn't real the full article. He was asked what he that sinful meant. He then quoted all the sins directly from the bible and said IN HIS EYES he thought a man would find a woman's vagina more desirable and offer more than a mans anus. About blacks, he never said they were never treated badly. Just that where he was, he never saw any of that. His entire interview was taken out of context in the version that made the rounds.