This is terrible. In a new interview with GQ, Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson made a series of anti-gay and terribly racist comments to interviewer Drew Magary, who met the star recently in Louisiana. It's worth noting before reading these comments that Duck Dynasty is currently the highest-rated reality show on cable television, and the season four premiere holds the record for most-watched nonfiction series telecast in cable television history.
It all starts when Robertson begins preaching to Magary about what he believes is "modern immorality":
It's an astonishingly awful statement to make, and just the beginning. What came next were his thoughts about what is "sinful," in his eyes:
Wait...did Phil Robertson just equate homosexuality to bestiality? For real? This just gets worse and worse.
He should be ashamed of himself—but it doesn't seem like he is, as he just goes on to quote Corinthians from the Bible and say that gay men and women "won't inherit the kingdom of God":
There was also the part where he claimed that living in anything other than a Christian society would lead to Nazis:
Lastly, the interview also included his terrible thoughts on civil rights, and why he thinks that black people were "happy" before the civil rights era, when everything in the US was segregated:
There's just so much terrible here, it's hard to know where to start. It's both disappointing and sickening that a man who is in the public eye would use his fame to say such disgusting things about whole groups and races of people.
In response to this, GLAAD has released a statement condemning Robertson's comments in the interview:
As for Duck Dynasty's network—A&E has yet to release a comment about Robertson's interview.
Robertson, on his part, doesn't seem too worried that his comments will affect the major ratings of his show (though they should, because his comments are terrible): He also told GQ that he knows his fame is fleeting, and, "it's a TV show. This thing ain't gonna last forever. No way."
Ugh.
[via TMZ/GQ]
