Well he didn't say homosexuality was like bestiality. He said they were both sins along with a few other sins like fortification. This really shouldn't be news. Christians have viewed homosexuality as sinful for thousands of years now.
Well yes he did. Here's what he said:
"Start with homosexual behavior and just morph from there," Robertson, 67, said when asked what is sinful. "Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men."
Mr. Magical Realist, regardless of (or possibly because of/due to) your chosen choices of lifestyle/religious beliefs you should at least be able to use basic common sense when considering another persons honest feelings about any given subject.
You fully expect (or is it demand?) that others practice basic common sense when considering your own statements, do you not?
In the GQ article : -
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/television/201401/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson?currentPage=1 - (3 pages)
The article states :
Out here in these woods, without any cameras around, Phil is free to say what he wants. Maybe a little too free. He’s got lots of thoughts on modern immorality, and there’s no stopping them from rushing out. Like this one:
“It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man’s anus. That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”
And also :
“Everything is blurred on what’s right and what’s wrong,” he says. “Sin becomes fine.”
He is then ASKED by the interviewer (page 2) :
What, in your mind, is sinful?
WHEN ASKED that, he replies :
“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men,” he says. Then he paraphrases Corinthians: “Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.”
Mr. Magical Realist, you have every right to your opinion, as does Mr. Robertson. He was honestly relating his thoughts, after being ASKED about them!
Mr. Magical Realist, you could at least be just as honest in quoting his exact words, and the CONTEXT IN WHICH THOSE WORDS WERE SPOKEN - when you, WITHOUT BEING ASKED, voluntarily choose to attack/take umbrage at Mr. Robertson"s words.
There's only two sides to be on here: protolerance or probigotry. There really isn't an in-between here. And considering gay bashing is still the number 1 hatecrime in America, along with bullying of gay teens, do you really want to be on THAT side?
No, Mr. Magical Realist, there is, in actually, only THE side of basic common sense! Your volunteered statements/comments only exhibit a lack of realizing/perceiving THAT side.
It is your own INTOLERANCE - it is your own BIGOTRY - it is your own lack of exhibiting THE side of basic common sense - that allows/causes/forces you to see it as bashing, bullying or a hate crime.
Mr. Magical Realist, could not any one practicing/exhibiting THAT basic common sense, not possibly consider what you, Mr.Magical Realist, are doing/Posting as just bashing, bullying or a hate crime, in and of itself?
Mr. Magical Realist, I'll use your own words, when I ask you : "do you really want to be on THAT side?"