It is offensive that a television personality decides an entire group of human beings are leading amoral lives. Of course this is in referral to the recent comments by Duck Dynasty Patriarch Phil Robertson. Most definitely, the man is entitled to his opinions and we do have freedom of speech protection by 1st Amendment but the comments are offensive.
Granted Robertson might be a virile Christian red neck---but most certainly in his line of work in the entertainment industry he has had to come across homosexuals (open or closeted) with whom he has had to do business.
Probably more troubling is that sensitive homosexual teenagers again have to be reminded that he or she is an abomination in the eyes of Phil Robertson's interpretation of the Bible. Or for the parent, who struggles with their child's sexual preferences and prays for that child's immoral soul.
There are many men and women who share Robertson's beliefs, yet unlike Robertson, they don't get on the public bully pulpit and attack roughly about 8-10% of the population.
Sex is an overrated test of a person's moral character. Short of rape, incest, and practicing pedophiles what goes on in the bedroom between consenting adults is really no one's business.
But the news and entertainment industry maybe have not done the gay population any favors when they attack people who don't agree that a homosexuality is a life style that a person chooses. And the entertainment industry has a tendency to portray gay men as flighty and effeminate and lesbian women as manly in their demeanor.
Lately, a politician's stance on gay marriage is used as a litmus test to determine if he should be elected and that question seems to pop out of the mouth of interviewers all the time. True people should know the politician's opinion but a person's stand on the issue should not disqualify him or her for public office.
Gay rights have come along way---and have a long way too go---but it is unfair that segments of the population who nonviolently disagree with the lifestyle should be attacked. And perhaps the recent well-intention A&E's Duck Dynasty removal of Phil Robertson may have backfired and more openly anti-gay personalities will emerge.
There are well-intended men and women who just don't get same sex attraction and feel a lifestyle is being pushed down their throats.
And we can not forget there is a portion of the population which is bi-sexual. And pornography presenting two women having sexual relations has been made for the discerning straight man!
Regardless, the LGBT segment of the American population and their friends and family members is here to openly stay and they will continue be a growing economic powerhouse.
The LGBT community can use its economic power and can choose not to purchase Duck Dynasty products or patronize anyone who openly attack their lifestyle as immoral.
In a blog way back in May, I decided to take break from writing and was hoping to resume again in September. Well life got in the way, and my interest in resurrecting the blog was certainly not there. So I turned to Twitter.
For those of you who do not use Twitter, your tweets are limited to 140 characters only. So brevity counts and if you have any comments on newsworthy events---you do so in the fewest words available.
Twitter is a great way to deliver a message. But an in-depth comment well just can't be done. (Let's be candid sometimes a one word phrases as sucks, Bs, freakin' stupid, are really the only comments needed to get a point across.)
So after the Duck Dynasty controversy, my hands started trembling, I was waddling around my office and quacking to myself knowing I had to write again.
So here I am----a few days before the holidays and am going to write about the comments by highly paid hillbilly Phil Roberston (no offense to anyone who calls themselves a hillbilly or claims one as a friend) and his comments about homosexuality. Now I am not going to debate the pros and cons of his position---which frankly are offensive.
But rather this duckass had no concept that just perhaps a great many people who watch his show or purchase Duck Dynasty product lines might be gay or have relatives who are gay and they are people that they happen to like. There are many people, myself included, don't necessarily believe that the Bible is meant to be the end all be all reference point on sensitive subjects as sexuality etc.,
Roberston made a bad business decision and I am certain fame had just gone to his furry faced head and he believed his comment needed to be added to the biblical opinion in regards to homosexuality.
So this smart-ass know-it-all decided he had to offer a comment and perhaps the best advice would have been to follow this business proverb:
Think What You May Think, But Don't Quack Out Load Every Thought That Comes To Mind
Should he apologize---well of course not. Robertson's apology would not be genuine and everyone knows it would be just to save his feathery hide.
No he and his family of Bible homophobic ducklings should retire from the television business with all their millions that they hopefully have nested away.
