Phil Robertson Says ‘People Participating In Homosexual Behavior Need To Know I Love Them’

In an interview on ABC this morning, Duck Dynasty Dad Phil Robertson talks about his comments on homosexuality and race.

“I’m as much of a homophobe as Jesus was,” Phil Robertson said in an interview that aired this morning. “People who are participating in homosexual behavior, they need to know that I love them.”

The Duck Dynasty dad spent some time with Good Morning America’s Ryan Owens to talk about his just-released book, unPHILtered: The Way I See It. The book includes some clarification Robertson says he wanted to make about his comments last year to GQ magazine. Those comments, which compared homosexuality to bestiality, adultery, prostitution, alcoholism, lying, and stealing, got the 68-year old Louisiana native in hot water, and a suspension from his A&E reality TV show, however brief.

“It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus,” Robertson told GQ last year. “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.”

“Everything is blurred on what’s right and what’s wrong,” in today’s modern world, Robertson added. “Sin becomes fine.”

“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.”

“Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.”

He also told GW, “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.”

But this morning, Robertson again attempted to distance himself from those remarks, saying, “people need to get in their head, dude, I don’t hate anybody.”

“The only place I know of that I could have gone to answer that question would be a Bible,” he says of his comments last year. “The dictionary wouldn’t have explained it and an encyclopedia would have explained whether, it was a sin or not. So, I went to the only source I had to answer his question.”

On his racially-charged and, as many said, racist comments, he responds, “There is one race, one race on this planet. It’s called the human race. We’re all the same. To me, there is absolutely nothing that as color to do with it.”

Earlier this year, Robertson claimed he’s just “trying to help those poor souls,” gay people, in other words, “and turn them to Jesus.” He defended his remarks by claiming, “I just quoted a Bible verse and everybody said I was a mean old man.”

Watch today’s interview:

 

Hat tip: Mediaite

 

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