The ‘Duck Dynasty’ Fiasco Says More About Our (Gay) Bigotry Than Phil’s

Time ^ | 12/19/2013 | By Brandon Ambrosino

[Responsibility2nd]

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As you can imagine, everyone had an opinion about this statement, including GLAAD and Phil’s check-signer, A&E, who suspended the star indefinitely.

One of the conservative tweeters I follow—one of those Christians convinced that Obama is going to have him killed for his faith—lives for stuff like this. He quickly took to the Twitterverse and posted a side-by-side image of Pope Francis and Phil, with the following caption: “Both preach truth on homosexual sin. One is TIME’s Person of the Year. The other JUST GOT FIRED.”

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Why is our go-to political strategy for beating our opponents to silence them? Why do we dismiss, rather than engage them? One of the biggest pop culture icons of today just took center stage to “educate” us about sexuality. I see this as an opportunity to further the discussion, to challenge his limited understanding of human desire, to engage with him and his rather sizeable audience—most of whom, by the way, probably share his views—and to rise above the endless sea of tweet-hate to help move our LGBT conversations to where they need to go.

GK Chesterton said that bigotry is “an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.” If he is right—and he usually is—then I wonder if the Duck Dynasty fiasco says more about our bigotry than Phil’s.

Brandon Ambrosino is a writer and professional dancer based in Baltimore.

[Responsibility2nd]

Heh.

[SkyDancer]

How long did it take MSNBC to fire (maybe) Bashir? And all those that came to his defense? Now DD gets pulled faster than the speed of light????

[DeaconRed]

Amen.

The queers are doing their best to control what we see here in this country.
Phil is our canary.
I love me some Duck Dynasty.

[VanDeKoik]

“...to challenge his limited understanding of human desire...”

Some “humans” desire kids, animals, and their own offspring.

Go ahead and “educate” us on this subject.

[BenLurkin]

his limited understanding of human desire

Roman Polanski certainly didn't see any limit to his desire. Is Time OK with that?

[V_TWIN]

“DD gets pulled faster than the speed of light????”

Not sure the show got pulled, I thought Mr. Phil was “suspended” from the show..............right?

[Farnsworth]

There you go.

Normal hetero Americans put up with and tolerate the fudge packing life choice as long as you keep it to yourself. The gay bunch don’t, they are the real bigots here. They are the real groupthink lockstep Nazi’s.

[V_TWIN]

That's their undoing. They demand tolerance of them but refuse to tolerate beliefs other than theirs.................It's the ultimate hypocrisy.

[tet68]

One of the biggest pop culture icons of today just took center stage to “educate” us about sexuality.

Who’s he talking about, Miley Cyrus or the Pope?

[SkyDancer]

Well in essence. What's the show without Mr. Phil? And the FB site has registered over 500K likes but wondering how long the page will stay up before FB whatshisname pulls it.

[Servant of the Cross]

This classic Scott Ott (Scrappleface) satire article illustrates that the real bigotry (and hyper hypocrisy) comes from the Gays ....

Obama: A&E Should Reinstate ‘Duck Dynasty’ Patriarch

[Responsibility2nd]

At least this gay bigot is honest enough to question their “in your face” approach to dialogue and debate.

But the fact is - they can’t posit a rationale response. They just scream and call us bigots and worse; but in the end, they are without merit for what they say and do.

[mrsmel]

sea of tweet-hate to help move our LGBT conversations to where they need to go.

Look at this. Even when he thinks he's being "tolerant", he thinks that everyone needs to be re-educated to fall into line. He can't just live and let live, just tolwrate the fact that someone disagrees with him and go his way. No, even their "tolerance" is just buying time to "re-educate" us wrong-headed people who think God's Word has more authority than that of mere mortals.

Does he ever go into Muslim communities to "re-educate" them about their stated stance on sodomy? Does he believe in proselytizing of that kind?

[Girlene]

exactly.

[ZULU]

LGBT? Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender?

Neither the acronym nor the terms are easy to remember.

I just call them all “queers” and let it go at that.

[tet68]

I can just see the next episode where Phil is blacked
out and his lines are replaced by a BeeeeeeeP.

Hahahaha.

[freekitty]

Of course it says it. It is pure propaganda. Obama is pure propaganda.

[Resolute Conservative]

I prefer sodomite or deviant.

[ZULU]

That’s good but queer is easier to spell. :)

[MrB]

So, do we have a queer that’s figuring out that his “cause” is being used by the left to criminalize Christianity?