Not even close. It is a free enterprise issue. And A&E can run its network any way it chooses, and the Duck family can choose whether to involve itself in a contract with that network or not. It is A&E's decision alone to make, and it is A&E that stands to reap the rewards or suffer the consequences of their decision.
No one is taking away Robertson's right to free speech or religious freedom. This is not a viewpoint discrimination case. No one is preventing Robertson from saying what he says.
But it is because of the lack of freedom of expression, where certain points of view arouse media-magnified ire that A&E (or any other enterprise) feels that certain comments are objectionable enough to cost them financial hardship.
Come on!
I agree with you on this, but not everybody here does. I’ll just have to agree to disagree with them.
I do however, hope A&E gets hosed over this.
No one is preventing PR from saying what he believes, but they are trying to silence him by making the consequences of speaking out so dire that one would choose to stay quiet instead of pay the price.
All Phil did was state his religious beliefs. I believe A&E did not fire him for this reason. He is on "Hiatus" until A and E figures out how many millions of dollars they want to lose!
>> No one is preventing Robertson from saying what he says.
So in your opinion, political correctness does impede speech in any way whatsoever?
I agree A&E has every right to fire people for any reason they want constitutionally speaking.
Liberals however including hypocritically A&E’s leadership most likely don’t believe in that freedom Instead they believe in the 1964 Civil rights act which explicitly states you can’t fire someone for expressing their religious believes on their own time as Phil Robertson was fired for doing here. (Perhaps they simply believe that applies to liberal religions?)
I don’t agree with the Constitutionality of this act, and am thus in agreement with you in that they can technically fire him for whatever reason they want including unethical reasons like the fact that he doesn’t share their religious believes to stick to their restrictive speech code while on his own time.
That being said Phil should hold the leftist like A&E to their own standards and sue under the civil rights act of 1964. Leftist need to learn that their own oppressive laws should apply to them as much as their enemies.