Phil Robertson is speaking out about his suspension from A&E’s Duck Dynasty following homophobic comments he made in an interview with GQ.
Robertson granted The Daily Mail access to a Bible study group in Louisiana on Sunday where he stood by his comments. “I will not give or back off from my path,” he said.
“I have been immoral, drunk, high. I ran with the wicked people for 28 years and I have run with the Jesus people since and the contrast is astounding,” he said. “I tell people, ‘You are a sinner, we all are. Do you want to hear my story before I give you the bottom line on your story?'”
“We murder each other and we steal from one another, sex and immorality goes ballistic. All the diseases that just so happen to follow sexual mischief… boy there are some microbes running around now.”
Robertson then discussed sexual sin – something that got him into trouble in the first place. “Sexual sins are numerous and many, I have a few myself. So what is your safest course of action? If you’re a man, find yourself a woman, marry them and keep your sex right there.”
He also reiterated comments seen in the bible. “Commonsense says we are not going to procreate the human race unless we have a man and a woman. From the beginning Jesus said, ‘It is a man and a woman.’ Adam was made and Eve was made for this reason. They left their fathers and mothers and be united to become one flesh, that’s what marriage is all about.”
“I love all men and women,” he said. “I am a lover of humanity, not a hater.”
Robertson said that those who are gay can be cured by Jesus. “If you’re a homosexual, he’ll take it away,” he said. “If you’re an adulterer, if you’re a liar, what’s the difference? If you break one sin you may as well break them all…If we lose our morality, we will lose our country. It will happen.”
The Duck Dynasty star also addressed the flack he and his co-stars have taken about their intelligence. “We are a bunch of rednecks from Louisiana,” he said, “but I am not uneducated, I have a degree from Louisiana Tech.”
“But this week I have been called an ignoramus,” he continued. “This week I have been asked, ‘Is this the first time you have brought up sin?’ I said, ‘Are you kidding?’ I have been traveling to and from spreading this message…I have made hundreds and hundreds of speeches and you can pick them apart and the center has always been Jesus Christ.”
Robertson’s family has pushed back against A&E’s decision to suspend Phil, and the future of the show is still up in the air.
Nine episodes of the upcoming season have been shot and will include Phil.
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