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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 04:01 PM Jun 2014

Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson: I’m just ‘trying to help those poor’ gays ‘and turn them to Jesus’

Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson explained over the weekend that people had misunderstood the intent of his homophobic comments because he was just “trying to help those poor souls and turn them to Jesus.”

Speaking at the Rock the South festival Cullman, Alabama on Saturday, Robertson defended comments he made to GQ magazine last year comparing homosexuality to bestiality and adultery.

Robertson had argued that “a vagina — as a man — would be more desirable than a man’s anus,” and said that LGBT people “won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.”

On Saturday, Robertson told the crowd that he was “actually a nice man,” according to the Birmingham News. “I’m trying to help those poor souls and turn them to Jesus,” he said.

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Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson: I’m just ‘trying to help those poor’ gays ‘and turn them to Jesus’ (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
what a fucking moron! gopiscrap Jun 2014 #1
Only if Lincoln took a harder line with the south...... Dawson Leery Jun 2014 #2
sorry, you've had your 15 minutes. Stop trying to get them back NightWatcher Jun 2014 #3
Turn them to Jesus? KamaAina Jun 2014 #4
Dear Phil Robertson: Turn this. LadyHawkAZ Jun 2014 #5
Every time this ignoramus opens his mouth... theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #6
Do they think there's some magic number of times xfundy Jun 2014 #7
I'm so sick of this family. WorseBeforeBetter Jun 2014 #8

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
3. sorry, you've had your 15 minutes. Stop trying to get them back
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 04:11 PM
Jun 2014

No one watches the show anymore, boycott or not.

xfundy

(5,105 posts)
7. Do they think there's some magic number of times
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 06:04 PM
Jun 2014

we have to have the same shit flung at us so we'll "turn or burn?"

WorseBeforeBetter

(11,441 posts)
8. I'm so sick of this family.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 06:29 PM
Jun 2014

All reality families, actually... Kimye, housewives, these phony country boys, the Boo-Boos. Ugh.

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