Phil Robertson, the patriarch of Louisiana\u2019s Duck Dynasty clan is being accused once again of making \u201canti-gay\u201d remarks when he quoted Scripture during at sermon he delivered at his home church in West Monroe on Easter Sunday. Remarks not in a national magazine, nor on TV, nor in any other forum, but in church.<\/p>\n
If America is not committed by its Constitution to protecting a speaker in the pulpit, then we must ask ourselves what is the status of every speaker in every pulpit of every church in the nation?<\/p>\n
Who\u2019s next?<\/p>\n
Robertson delivered the second sermon at Whites Ferry Road Church on Easter Sunday, April 20. Referencing an interview published in the December 2013 issue of GQ<\/em> magazine when asked if homosexuality was a sin, the family leader recalled giving the reporter a \u201clist\u201d of those who will not inherit the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n Here is a portion of what Robertson said during the sermon.<\/p>\n \u201cAre you waiting on Jesus? Or are you afraid to see that sky busting his skin coming? You\u2019ve got two lists. I gave some guy one list.<\/em><\/p>\n You say were they mad at you about that list? They were mad at me. Why did they get mad at you? Because instead of acknowledging their sin like you had better do, they railed against me for giving them the truth about their sin.<\/em><\/p>\n Don\u2019t deceive yourself. You want the verse? The news media didn\u2019t even know it was a verse. They thought I was just mouthing off. Is homosexual behavior a sin? the guy asked me. I said, \u2018Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don\u2019t be deceived. <\/em>Neither the sexually immoral, nor the idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders, nor thieves, nor greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. \u2018<\/em><\/p>\n I gave you the rest of the story. I gave you the bad news then I gave you the good news. I said the apostle Paul then said and that\u2019s what some of you were. I was in that camp. I\u2019ve been in that camp\u2026We\u2019ve all been there. The reason we\u2019re here today is to remind you of the gospel that was preached.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The verses\u2019 Robertson is referencing comes from 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11 (ESV). Paul is directing the church at Corinth (a city of devious sexual sin) to avoid lawsuits against one another and as a prelude to his instruction to avoid sexual sin he wrote:<\/p>\n