In promoting an upcoming book on his
philosophy on life, Phil Robertson has said he loves gay people.
UnPHILtered:
The Way I See It arrived on bookstore shelves on Tuesday.
During a Good Morning America
appearance to pitch UnPHILtered, Robertson defended remarks
he made last year in an interview with men's fashion glossy GQ.
Cabler A&E briefly suspended
Robertson for saying that gay sex was an illogical “sin” and
putting it in the same category as bestiality and promiscuity.
(Related: Duck
Dynasty's
Phil Robertson calls gay sex illogical “sin.”)
“I don't hate
anybody,” the Duck Dynasty patriarch told GMA's Ryan Owens.
“The only place
that I know of that I could have gone to answer that question would
be a Bible,” he continued. “The dictionary wouldn’t have
explained it. An encyclopedia wouldn’t have explained it, whether
it was a sin or not. So I went to the only source I had to answer
his question.”
“I'm as much of a
homophobe as Jesus was. People who are participating in homosexual
behavior, they need to know that I love them,” he added. (Video
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