Phil Robertson Quotes
Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.
Magary, Drew. "What the Duck?" GQ, Jan. 2014.
Islam forbids homosexuality and Sharia (Islamic religious law) prescribes death as the penalty for homosexuality. At that time Iran was a Muslim theocracy and if there were overt homosexuality that was officially discovered, the heretics would be killed. The logic of the government was that since they had killed the homosexuals, there were none left. At the same time all the research showed that while Muslim homosexuality was slightly less than Christian, it was still quite significant in all Muslim cultures that had been studied. If the President was to be believed, Iran was the only exception.
This statement gave the audience quite a laugh. There has been a small percentage of homosexuals in every society known to man—especially the ones who condemn it the most. In order for those opposing societies and cultures to speak about homosexuality, write about it and pass laws against it, there must have of course been some homosexuality. In the case of Iran and its Persian tradition and the Arab tradition there has been historically not only open homosexuality in different periods as in Ancient Greece, but it is documented by some of the great Persian and Arab literature. See {624479}.
The call had been taped by Wead without Bush’s knowledge when Bush was first running for the Presidency. His radical right supporters among the Christian fundamentalists believed that Bush was opposed to gay lifestyles.
He tried to make homosexual acts criminal by enforcing an old Virginia law against sodomy, but was overruled unanimously by a 3 judge panel of the Virginia Appellate court, based on a clear Supreme Court precedent of Lawrence v. Texas, 2003. Most political analysis believe that Cuccinelli knew perfectly well that this would be unconstitutional but proposed it and went to court to pander to the ultra conservative base of his party.
Earlier, he had opposed same sex marriage, but as the population as a whole had a change of mind on this issue, so did he. By 2013, 16 States had modified their laws to allow gay marriage.
Phil Alexander Robertson is an American professional hunter, businessman (Duck Commander company), and reality television star on the popular television series Duck Dynasty. He is also featured on the television show Duck Commander, a hunting program on the Outdoor Channel.