‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Phil Robertson Did Something Awesome for a Christian Fan Who Drove 20 Hours to Meet Him

(Breathe Cast) – A New Jersey man drove at least 20 hours earlier this month to see “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson, arguably one of television’s most popular reality stars. But that’s not the story. The story is why he made the lengthy journey: to have the Robertson family member baptize him.

Brian Richards made the long trek from his home to White’s Ferry Road Church of Christ in West Monroe, La., where Robertson introduced him to the church on March 2, before publicly baptizing him.

“From New Jersey, I can count on one hand the people I met from New Jersey,” Robertson quipped, before telling the congregation about Richards’ long journey to the house of worship.

Watch the video of this introduction below:

A second clip shows Robertson and Richards in the church’s baptismal pool. The “Duck Dynasty” star explains the Christian salvation message and describes the significance of baptism before dunking Richards under the water.

“You are now going to die to sin,” Robertson told Richards beforehand. “You’re going to be buried — the old you — and the new one will come forth. God will seal you with his spirit and you will be guaranteed to be raised from the dead one day and live forever. Good news, you know?”

Watch the baptism below:

[H/T: Breathe Cast]

Gays Lose: A&E Ends Phil Robertson’s Suspension, Returns to Duck Dynasty in 2014

A&E has ducked away from a controversy surrounding the stars of its hugely popular reality series Duck Dynasty.

The network issued a statement late Friday backing off from its previously announced suspension of Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the clan behind the successful Louisiana-based Duck Commander duck-calling business. The suspension was triggered by Robertson’s interview with GQ, published last week, in which he made anti-gay statements, which he said reflected his religious beliefs.

The interview sparked protests from human-rights groups, and led to A&E’s quick decision to suspend Robertson from future episodes. But that action also triggered a backlash from someDynasty fans, who tried to organize a boycott of the network — and Robertson’s own family, which suggested it would not be willing to keep filming the series without him.

In a statement, the network cited its “core values” of “inclusion and mutual respect” to explain why “we reacted so quickly and strongly.” “While Phil’s comments made in the interview reflect his personal views based on his own beliefs, and his own personal journey, he and his family have publicly stated they regret the ‘coarse language’ he used and the misinterpretation of his core beliefs based only on the article. He also made it clear he would ‘never incite or encourage hate.’ We at A+E Networks expressed our disappointment with his statements in the article, and reiterate that they are not views we hold.”

The statement then offered some wiggle room: “But Duck Dynasty is not a show about one man’s views. It resonates with a large audience because it is a show about family… a family that America has come to love. As you might have seen in many episodes, they come together to reflect and pray for unity, tolerance and forgiveness,” the statement said. “After discussions with the Robertson family, as well as consulting with numerous advocacy groups, A&E has decided to resume filming Duck Dynasty later this spring with the entire Robertson family.”

An already completed 10-episode season will begin airing Jan. 15, with all of the Robertsons featured. The new episodes, scheduled to be shot this spring, will air later next year. Duck is the No. 2 series on cable TV, behind The Walking Dead, and ranks among the top 30 of all TV shows with an average of 13.4 million viewers.

[H/T GOP The Daily Dose]

MSNBC Eric Dyson: Phil Robertson, Duck Dynasty Part of White Supremacist Culture

Bringing a whole new meaning to the liberal idiocy, Eric Dyson never seizes to amaze me. Is this guy really that dumb?

GREGORY ANGELON: Everyone’s open to freedom of speech. The left can say what they like, the right can say what they like. The whole point of proposing this, what we’re calling the “Moonshine Summit,” is saying that we’re getting into a dangerous point in this country right now, where it is almost an us versus them culture. Where it’s going to be the LGBT community versus the Christian right. Or it’s going to be the, you name your special interest group versus the right. We have become such a gerrymandered nation that unless we have these conversations, somehow be in the middle, somehow find common ground, we’re not going to be in a great place politically.

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: It isn’t all created equal, you do know that. The mythology is that all interested parties should come to the table. But let’s not pretend that African-American people have had control of the law, where that they’ve indicated that Jim Crow was against poor white people. There’s not an equality of means of representing your interests or means of asserting oppression. When we have this mythology of all come to the table, let’s at least be honest about who has been provided opportunity to get their viewpoint broadcast more broadly. And Phil Robertson and the “Duck Dynasty” is part of a majority white supremacist culture that either consciously or unconsciously incubates hatred toward those who are different. (MSLSD’s Now with Alex Wagner, 12/27/2013)

[H/T Real Clear Politics]

Jesse Jackson: Phil Robertson Worse Than Rosa Parks’ Bus Driver

Rev. Jesse Jackson weighed in on the raging Duck Dynasty controversy over star Phil Robertson’s opinion on homosexuality, claiming, “the statements uttered by Robertson are more offensive than the… driver” of civil rights icon Rosa Parks’ bus.

According to the Daily Mail, Jackson added: “At least the bus driver, who ordered Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person, was following state law.” But Robertson said what he said “without cover of the law.” And Jackson said the statements Robertson made in answering a GQ reporter’s question were given “in a context of… ‘white privilege.'”

As Breitbart News reported on December 18, the central component of Robertson’s answer to the reporter was a recitation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. One would think a reverend would embrace the use of Scripture instead of condemning the man who recited it.

Instead, Jackson is demanding that Robertson’s “indefinite” suspension be upheld and he also wants a meeting “within 72 hours with A&E executives and Cracker Barrel’s CEO to discuss the future of Duck Dynasty memorabilia.”

I wonder if this will be a classic Jackson “shakedown” where memorabilia can continue to be sold as long as Jackson or his Rainbow PUSH Coalition get a little kickback.

Judge Jeanine Opening Statement 12/21/2013: Duck Dynasty Comment Controversy

Judge Jeanine’s Opening Statement: ‘This week’s duck dynasty controversy seems more about the left and they’re right.’

I like ducks, I don’t know why I just like to like the way they waddle I like the way they quack like the way they hang out with their kids and sister you femia would have been proud of how they walk in a straight line behind their mother Superior.

Judge Jeanine talks to the huge controversy that transpired this week about Phil Robertson and weighs in on how this story became so big.

Great show this week Judge! Watch more Judge here.

[H/T YouTube]

Charlie Daniels to Piers Morgan: ‘You Wouldn’t Last Five Minutes’ in the Duck Dynasty Swamps

(NewsBusters) NewsBusters guest contributor Charlie Daniels has had enough of CNN’s Piers Morgan attacking Americans he doesn’t agree with.

After Morgan said about Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson via Twitter Thursday, “[T]he 1st Amendment shouldn’t protect vile bigots,” Daniels scolded the arrogant Brit Friday with a series of tweets that began, “Piers Morgan why don’t you go back to England and straighten it out before you try to change the United States of America”:

To which Piers Morgan responded:

Actually, I think a gay person would prefer to go to war with someone that believes in the second amendment and knows how to use guns NOT some America-hating Brit who wants everyone’s guns taken away.

How about you?

[H/T Newsbusters]

The Qur’an is “Hate Speech” and Should be Banned

If we are to accept in the aftermath of the ‘Duck Dynasty’ controversy that criticism of homosexual activity represents “hate speech,” then the Qur’an, which advocates stoning gay people to death, should also be denounced as hate speech and banned.

Image: The Qur’an (Wikimedia Commons).

According to Democratic Party political pollster Bernard Whitman, who appeared on Fox News yesterday, along with a plethora of other leftists, Phil Robertson’s comments are hateful and said they shouldn’t be allowed to be aired in public.

Yet the Qur’an, which clearly states that homosexuality is punishable by violent torture and death, is not subjected to anywhere near the same level of vitriol as that leveled against Phil Robertson by leftists. Why is that?

Let’s contrast what Robertson said in comparison to what the Qur’an says about homosexuals;

Robertson: “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…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.”

Qur’an (7:80-84) – “…For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds…. And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone). Then see what was the end of those who indulged in sin and crime!”

The Qur’an’s use of the term “shower of brimstone” is interpreted by Muslim scholars to mean stoning somebody to death. The story is also repeated in suras 27 and 29.

As we illustrated earlier, not only the Qur’an but also the Christian Bible should be banned under this framework because both can be considered hate speech as they incite violence against homosexuals.

Despite the Qur’an’s advocacy of stoning homosexuals to death, in addition to its recommendation that husbands beat their wives, it is virtually unheard of for prominent leftists to be critical of Islam, and yet the venom spewed in the direction of Robertson for asserting that homosexuality is a sin has been unrelenting.

Indeed, when Bernard Whitman complained that TV networks were allowing religion to be “used as a weapon to spew hate,” he wasn’t referring to the religion of Islam, despite the fact that it advocates far more brutal treatment of gays than anything Robertson stated.

We have a choice. Either we allow the unrestricted flow of free speech in the public area and accept that people will be offended and given the right to reply, or we use the power of the state to designate certain beliefs as “hate speech” and deliberately restrict them from appearing in the public arena.

If we go for the second option, billions of copies of the Bible and the Qur’an will have to be removed from tens of millions of churches throughout the world.

[H/T Info Wars>>Paul Joseph Watson]

‘Duck Dynasty’s’ Phil Robertson: Brutally Honest Opinion on Why Homosexuality in Men Is ‘NOT LOGICAL’

The news comes after the reality star compared being gay to bestiality, drawing ire from LGBT groups including GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign.

Phil Robertson, one of the stars of A&E’s hit show “Duck Dynasty,” really doesn’t understand why a man would choose to lay with another man instead of a woman. In a brutally honest interview with GQ Magazine for its January edition, Robertson opened up about his family of “Bible-thumpers” and why choosing a man’s “anus” over a woman’s “vagina” is “not logical.”

“You put in your article that the Robertson family really believes strongly that if the human race loved each other and they loved God, we would just be better off. We ought to just be repentant, turn to God, and let’s get on with it, and everything will turn around,” Robertson told the magazine.

This 2012 photo released by A&E shows, from left, Phil Robertson, Jase Robertson, Si Robertson and Willie Robertson from the A&E series, “Duck Dynasty.” (AP)

One thing is for sure, no one can say they don’t know where Robertson stands on the issue of sin and immorality. He said we’ve gotten to a point in our society where everything “is blurred on what’s right and what’s wrong” and that’s how sin suddenly “becomes fine.”

“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 said.

The TV star and entrepreneur went on to paraphrase part of the book of 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.”

After making his case as to why he feels homosexuality is morally wrong, Robertson then expressed his confusion about why a man would even desire a man when a woman has “more” to offer.

“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,” he said.

Phil Robertson with his wife, Miss Kay. Robertson gave his thoughts on homosexuality in a new interview with GQ Magazine. (Getty Images)

But he said those are his personal views. He said it’s not his job to judge someone on who’s going to heaven or hell — because “that’s the Almighty’s job.”

In a prediction sure to horrify “Duck Dynasty” fans, Robertson also said he thinks the show will be off the air in three to five years.

The Robertson family did not immediately return a request for comment from TheBlaze.

[H/T The Blaze]