Folks in Louisiana town stand by reality TV family

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20131223/DAARNVTO3.html

By TAMARA LUSH

WEST MONROE, La. (AP) - "Faith. Family. Ducks." It's the unofficial motto for the family featured in the TV reality show Duck Dynasty and that homespun philosophy permeates nearly everything in this small north Louisiana town.

It's perhaps most on display at the White's Ferry Road Church of Christ in West Monroe, where the Robertson family prays and preaches most Sunday mornings.



Howell Henderson of Joplin, Mo., poses for a picture outside the Duck Commander store in West Monroe, La. Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. The town is the setting for the popular "Duck Dynasty"series, where show patriarch, Phil Robertson, was suspended last week for disparaging comments he made to GQ magazine about gay people. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)


The family - including patriarch Phil Robertson, who ignited a controversy last week when he told a magazine reporter that gays are sinners and African-Americans were happy under Jim Crow laws - were in a front pew this past Sunday. And standing by beliefs they say are deeply rooted in their reading of the Bible.

The rest of the flock, decked out in Duck Dynasty hats and bandannas, stood by the family and the sentiments Phil Robertson expressed.

FULL story at link.

[NightWatcher]

1. Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken

Nor does letting your facial grow make you a good ol God fearin' country boy. These are hucksters who sell calls that trick ducks into getting shot.

If killing ducks were such a hard thing to do, why is it I can get two dozen when I go to the park with a loaf of bread and a hammer?

I looked at the cable guide today and A&E ran a marathon of guess what? That's right, gotta cash in on the poutrage.

[LiberalElite]

2. Slogan should be revised to

"Faith. Family. D**ks."

[Zorra]

3. When You Defend Phil Robertson, Here's What You're Really Defending

(Just to make it perfectly clear how ignorant and hateful all of them really are)

Robertson thinks black Americans were treated just fine in the Jim Crow-era South, and that they were happy there. "I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field.... They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues."

Robertson thinks the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because they didn't believe in Jesus. "All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. I’ll give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. That’s eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups."

Robertson hates gay people. Robertson in 2010: "Women with women, men with men, they committed indecent acts with one another, and they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions. They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil."

This last one is key. My inbox is full of "love the sinner, hate the sin" defenses of Robertson's 2013 remarks. But Robertson doesn't love gay people. He thinks they're, well, "full of murder." His views on gays are hateful, inasmuch as they are full of hate.

http://www.businessinsider.com/when-you-defend-phil-robertson-heres-what-youre-really-defending-2013-12#ixzz2oFsUOfUa

[Fawke Em]

4. Apparently he knows nothing about Islam, either.

Jesus, or Asa, as he's known in the Qur'an, IS 'in' Islam.

[Warpy]

5. Yeah, they're on firm biblical ground, the OT loved slavery

and institutionalized it all the way through. It's only the pesky NT that contradicts it.

So these old boys need to put away that cotton/poly camo, give up crawfish, shrimp and other shellfish as well as pork (including handling a football) in order to be more perfect BCE Jews. Hell, that whole stinking town needs to do that.