'Duck Dynasty' star: Media
'blurring lines' on sin
'They railed against me for giving them
the truth'
“Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson is
likely experiencing a case of déjà vu as he faces renewed media attention
following comments he made about “homosexual offenders” and sin during an
Easter Sunday sermon just weeks ago.
Robertson ridiculed his critics for
“blurring” the lines between “sinners” and homosexuals during a fiery speech at
Whites Ferry
Road Church
in his hometown of West Monroe,
Louisiana, on April 20.
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“The reason we’re here today is to remind
us of the gospel that’s preached,” declared Robertson.
Just in time for the sixth-season debut of
“Duck Dynasty,” a video of the sermon posted on YouTube has now gone viral, and
the national media are once again seizing upon Robertson’s remarks.
As WND reported, A&E Network briefly suspended Robertson from the
wildly popular “Duck Dynasty” amid protests over a December 2013 interview with
GQ magazine in which he discussed the
“sin” of homosexuality.
Robertson touched on the GQ interview
during the Easter sermon.
“‘Is homosexual behavior a sin?’ the guy
asked me. I said, ‘Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived.’”
Robertson told the congregation he refuses
to back down from his beliefs and called the media coverage of the controversy
“absurd.”
“They were mad at me,” Robertson
said. “Cuz instead of acknowledging their sin, like you had better do, they
railed against me for giving them the truth about their sins. Don’t deceive
yourselves.”
“Neither the sexually immoral, nor the
idolators nor adulterers nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders, nor
thieves, nor greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the
kingdom of God,” Robertson blasted, paraphrasing a
verse from 1 Corinthians in the Bible.
“The news media didn’t even know it was a
verse! They thought I was just mouthing off.”
Robertson released a public apology after
his suspension from the show that read in part, “I would never treat anyone
with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by
the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity. We would all be better off
if we loved God and loved each other.”
The new season of “Duck Dynasty” is
scheduled to begin June 11.
GQ
GQ is a Conde Nast Publications publication.
Note: David
Carey was a group president for Conde Nast Publications,
and is the president of Hearst Magazines.
Hearst
Magazines is a division of the Hearst Corporation.
A&E
Television Networks is a partner with the Hearst
Corporation.
Ronald
J. Doerfler was the SVP for the Hearst Corporation,
a director at the Lazard Group LLC,
and a director at the Lazard Ltd.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a
director at the Lazard Group LLC, a director at the
Lazard Ltd., an honorary trustee at the
Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), was the president of the Economic Club of
Washington, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
David
M. Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the president of the Economic
Club of Washington, a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and a board member at the National
Museum of American History.
Shirley
Ann Jackson is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and
a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a
2008 documentary film directed by Nathan Frankowski and hosted by Ben
Stein.[2][3] The film contends that the mainstream science establishment
suppresses academics who believe they see evidence of intelligent design in
nature and who criticize evidence supporting Darwinian evolution and the modern
evolutionary synthesis as a "scientific conspiracy to keep God out of the
nation's laboratories and classrooms."[4][5] The scientific theory of
evolution is portrayed by the film as contributing to fascism, the Holocaust,
communism, atheism, and eugenics.[6][7] The film portrays intelligent design as
motivated by science, rather than religion, though it does not give a detailed
definition of the phrase or attempt to explain it on a scientific level. Other
than briefly addressing issues of irreducible complexity, Expelled examines it
as a political issue.
The "Expelled"
Expelled features excerpts from an
interview Stein conducted with Richard Sternberg, described as an evolutionary
biologist (he has two PhDs in evolutionary biology [41]) and a former editor
for a scientific journal associated with the Smithsonian
Institution. The film
says his life was "nearly ruined" after he published an article by
intelligent design proponent Stephen C. Meyer in 2004, allegedly causing him to
lose his office, to be pressured to resign, and to become the subject of an
investigation into his political and religious views. Sternberg defended his
decision, stating that Intelligent Design was not the overall subject of the
paper (being mentioned only at the end) and that he was attempting merely to
present questions ID proponents had raised as a topic for discussion. He
presented himself and Meyer as targets of religious and political persecution,
claiming the chairman of his department referred to him as an
"intellectual terrorist". Stein states that the paper "ignited a
firestorm of controversy merely because it suggested intelligent design might
be able to explain how life began", and goes beyond the findings of the
U.S. Office of Special Counsel to claim that Sternberg was
"terrorized".[28] Stein further alleges that Congressman Mark Souder
uncovered a campaign by the Smithsonian and the NCSE to destroy Sternberg's
credibility, though he does not provide any details.
Sternberg, a staff scientist for the National Center for Biotechnology Information and
also a fellow of the intelligent design advocacy group ISCID, had resigned his
position at the journal Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington six
months before publication of the Meyers paper. The Council of the Biological
Society of Washington has stated that "Contrary to typical editorial
practices, the paper was published without review by any associate editor;
Sternberg handled the entire review process".[42] Although in the film
Stein says the paper "suggested intelligent design might be able to
explain how life began", it discussed the much later development of phyla
during the Cambrian explosion and deviated from the journal's topic of
systematics to introduce previously discredited claims about bioinformatics.
The Society subsequently declared that the paper "does not meet the
scientific standards of the Proceedings" and would not have been published
had typical editorial practices been followed.[42][43] Sternberg, contrary to
the impression given by the film, was not an employee, but an unpaid
"Research Associate" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, a post which ran for a limited period. Also contrary to
the way his career was depicted in the film, Sternberg still retained this
position until 2007, when he was given the offer of continuing as a research
collaborator.[28][44] He continued to have full access to research facilities
at the museum as of April 2008.
Joseph
R. Biden Jr. is a regent at the Smithsonian Institution,
and the vice president for the Barack Obama
administration.
National
Museum of Natural History is a member of the Smithsonian
Institution.
Darwin Exhibition Opens at
Smithsonian’s National
Museum of
Natural History
Sept.10, 2009
National
Museum of American History is a member of the Smithsonian
Institution.
Libby
Haight O'Connell is a board member for the National
Museum of American History, and a chief historian & SVP for the A&E Television Networks.
Abbe Raven
is a board member for the National Museum of American
History, and the president & CEO for the A&E
Television Networks.
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