“The Tennessean reported that when Putnam County tried to book Phil Robertson’s brother, Si, for its 2013 county fair, the asking price started at $29,000 and rose to $40,000.”
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Following publication of controversial remarks made by ‘Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson in the January 2014 issue of GQ Magazine, management of the A&E network suspended him from its popular program. Under pressure from high-profile Republicans, include Sara Palin and Louisiana Gov. Bobbie Jindal, the network quickly reinstated Robertson.
Among those calling on A&E to reinstate Robertson, were many Christian evangelicals, including John Bona, an organizer of the Vero Beach Prayer Breakfast and host of the radio program, “The History of Liberty.” Robertson was the keynote speaker at the $150,000 event put on by Bona and his group.
According to an April 27, 2013 report by The Tennessean newspaper of Nashville, those who book Robertson mush sign confidentiality clauses preventing them from revealing his speaking fees. The Tennessean reported that when Putnam County tried to book Phil Robertson’s brother, Si, for its 2013 county fair, the asking price started at $29,000 and rose to $40,000.
Below is a link to Bona’s defense of Robertson, followed by Robertson’s graphic, and crude comments published last year by GQ Magazine.
Phil Robertson, as quoted in the January, 2014 issue of GQ Magazine: “It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”
Indian River Guardian 
Your wording is starting to get argumentative Mark. Your opinion is starting to overshadow the argument.
As I heard what Phil said during the Prayer Breakfast, it was not tasteful in my culture and is not the way that my background and education would have had me say it. He surely got everyone’s attention and drove home the clear point. The facts are harshly true and the point was absolutely valid. You can question the presentation, but not the facts. Progressive morality is a matter of situation and convenience. Fundamental Christians are just that, their fundamentals are rooted in the word of God. Their lives are based on trying to live the word of Jesus Christ as best they can and not turn their heads when it is convenient. It is my recollection that was his point.
1 Corinthians 1 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
Christ the Power and Wisdom of God
18 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, 23 but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
John 1 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
Amen
Sorry bud, but I HIGHLY doubt any disciple of God would share something this tawdry, disgusting and perverse just to sell “God’s Word”.
But then again I’m not some moronic idiot trying to garner attention to sell myself.
Nor an I a desperate attention hound that would apologize for Phil’s little comments.
You can post any Biblical scripture you want, it does not explain away nor lend credibility to this perverse message.
But it does say a lot where ol’ Phil, and his apologists, had to go in his brain to conjure this as a parable.
And people really have to wonder why so many are turning away from the church? God clearly no longer dwells within anymore if this is acceptable in any way.
Would Christ have been so callous to suggest the rape and murder of small children, a mother and her daughters as some form of retribution for atheism? Is this what passes for Christianity? Further, is it limiting your religious freedom to assert Roberson has gone too far? Is it attempting to rid you of your right to worship Christ to suggest that people who would champion father duck, are listening not to a loving god, but a demon from hell who is wearing a disguise?
Vic, I could not disagree with you more. Robertson’s point is that without biblical mandates there is no right and wrong. In my own life, I have known atheists and agnostics who have a clear moral compass, far greater compassion for their fellow human beings and more respect for creation than many professing Christians.
Having earned a Masters of Divinity Degree from Columbia Seminary, I am not without some knowledge of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian scriptures; and I am not willing to surrender the fundamentals of the biblical message to so-called fundamentalists, many of whom torture the sacred texts with their literalist and sometimes mindless interpretations. In their hands, the Bible is often used more as a weapon than as a guide to salvation.
You can selectively quote scriptures endlessly, but as long as you are sticking with your favorite passages — your canon within the canon — then you are being less than faithful to the God of love revealed through these very scriptures. (Don’t confuse the finger with the full moon to which it points.)
For example, though Indiana Gov. Mike Pence would refuse service to a gay couple, the Christ he confesses would not.
For all the selective interpretations of limited passages so-called fundamentalists might offer, I am reminded of the words of the prophet Amos, who, speaking for God, said, “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. But let justice roll down like might waters, and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.”
I will say again what I said a few days ago. When the day of judgment comes, self-righteous Christians are going to have a lot of explaining to do. Why? Because they behave in ways that make it all but impossible for others to come to faith.