Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Pat Buchanan: “Duck Dynasty” and the New Blacklist

 
Korie Robertson (Mrs. Willie Robertson) for those of you who were tired of pictures of Phil.
 

Excerpted by Nicholas Stix
 

“Duck Dynasty” and the

New Blacklist

By Patrick J. Buchanan
December 23, 2013, at 7:11 p.m.
VDARE

Pope Francis' call for a truce notwithstanding, the culture war rages on in America.

Last week, a Utah judge struck down part of the state's anti-polygamy law, clearing the way for men to marry multiple spouses.

Methodist pastor Frank Schaefer, defrocked for officiating at the same-sex marriage of his son, refused to recant, and joined a Dupont Circle congregation, declaring from the pulpit to repeated ovations Sunday, "Change is coming" to the United Methodist Church.

Major media stories both.

Yet these were skirmishes alongside the culture war clash last week over the remarks to GQ magazine of Phil Robertson, patriarch of the clan of "Duck Dynasty," the wildly popular show on A&E.

Using crude terms, but biblically correct arguments, Robertson told GQ what he thought of homosexuality and moral relativism.…

[Read the whole thing here.]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Those Hollywood Ten fled to Mexico, and wrote screen scripts under assumed names and got paid a princely sum for their endeavors. And living the life of the swimming pool communist literally.