Phil Robertson is Back. Hate be Praised!

A&E has re-instated Phil Robertson.  He will re-join his Duck Dynasty family in the Spring when taping begins for next season's episodes.

what eye thynk:   On Friday, I wrote about Duck Dynasty's patriarch being suspended from the A&E program because of his vitriolic interview in GQ.  This is the article where he compared homosexuality with bestiality and declared that black people were happy in slavery.  According to Mr. Robertson, the Bible revealed these truths to him as a faithful Christian. The point of my article was that, finally, with his suspension, someone was showing this kind of hate filled rhetoric had a price.  

Well, it appears that the price is cheap; as a matter of fact, it is beyond cheap.  Phil Robertson and his family, along with A&E, reaped a week's worth of publicity with an added serving of hatred validation from their fellow far right partisans.

Loud and proud right wing religious bigots everywhere are celebrating.  Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal praised A&E's decision.  "I am glad to hear that the folks at A&E came to their senses and recognized that tolerance of religious views is more important than political correctness.  Today is a good day for the freedoms of speech and religious liberty.  The left is going to have to get accustomed to the fact that it does not have a monopoly on free speech and is not the only group who is permitted to voice its opinion in the public square.  The left may control Hollywood, but they don't control the hearts and minds of a majority of Americans."

I don't know when "Praise Jesus!" was replaced with "Praise hate!" in the hearts and minds of Mr. Jindal's "majority"; but I weep for their children.

How much better our world would be if these people had read a little further, perhaps to 1 John 4:8 - Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.