Alabama Lawmaker Proposes Legislation Backing Duck Dynasty Star

[Initech]

Source: CNN

(CNN) - The controversial comments about homosexuality made by "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson have come up in conversations across the country in the past two weeks and may make its way to the Alabama state legislature next month.

Republican state Sen. Jerry Fielding plans to introduce a symbolic resolution in support of the Louisiana family's patriarch.

What Robertson said on homosexuality, Fielding told CNN Friday, is "supported by the biblical scriptures."

"For too long, the silent majority has remained silent when we ought to be speaking up" for what Fielding described as a Constitutional right to speak one's mind.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/27/alabama-lawmaker-to-propose-legislation-backing-duck-dynasty-star/

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They just don't get it do they? And now they're wasting government time on this crap?

[louis-t]

1. Don't repugs have anything better to do?

There's important stuff to do, like another vote to repeal Obamacare!!1!!

[Initech]

2. Or Benghazi!!!!1!!!1!

[Thav]

8. Yes, we need a vote to repeal Benghazi!!!

[DavidDvorkin]

3. They're not a majority, and they're certainly not silent.

[LibGranny]

4. That would be okay with me IF they could KEEP

ALL THE STUPID IN ALABAMA!

[BE10sCoach]

5. Southern and most Republicans

Are they really that damn DUMB?

[arcane1]

6. "REMAINED SILENT"???

Jerry Fielding is desperate for some attention, isn't he?

[frylock]

7. the silent majority has remained silent?!

from where i'm sitting, the "silent majority" doesn't shut the fuck up. ever. all they do is create noise pollution with their incessant pissing and moaning.

[Wait Wut]

9. They'll be sorry they did this.

If (BIG 'if') this thing passes, they'll be opening up a gigantic can of worms that will open up lawsuits against employers all over their state. No more, "My employee called a customer a dumbass on her FB page, so I fired her."

If they're going to force private companies to allow free speech of all types, racists, bigots, disgruntled/abused employees, jerks and scum will be allowed to run free through the communities, destroying the reputation of countless companies.

But, I suspect bright attorneys with an inkling of Constitutional Law will make a fortune.

Love to see how they promote keeping government out of private lives and businesses, though.

[groundloop]

10. What about DuckMan's racial comments, they gonna' support that as well?

Black people were better off before the civil rights movement, really? Let's see any GOPer led state legislature come out in support of that bullshit!

[christx30]

14. After Mandela died,

I heard many of those same people say that black people in South Africa were much better off under Apartheid than they are now.

[Kingofalldems]

17. That's actually what it's all about.

The anti-gay stuff is just a cover. People (even on DU) have totally missed that IMO.

[mitty14u2]

11. You are just playing into the right wings hand by bashing this guy and his family, number one watche

You are just playing into the right wings hand by bashing this guy and his family, number one watched show of poor guys that make it, far and few in-between in the south.

Southerners make it with the philosophy, Can you really do without that; Meaning spend your money wisely because you don’t have much.

Bashing these guys does more harm then good no matter what they say or think.

Your just filling in the voters ballet leaving off any Democrats!

Canard, outsmarting your opponents with a Canard!

Conard; French, literally, duck; in sense 1, from Middle French vendre des canards à moitié to cheat, literally, to half-sell ducks

Or half backed story to use for other purposes, outsmarting your opponents with a Canard!

Related Words;

dirt, gossip, scuttlebutt, talebearing, talk, tattle; dirty laundry, dirty linen; defamation, libel, slander; hearsay; fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, untruth, whopper

Redirecting any meaningful discussion on this BS, a Conard!

[armed_and_liberal]

15. With all due respect...

More than a few of us "poor southern boys" have done quite well for ourselves without being racists and homophobes. Many of us can hunt,fish and find our way through the swamps just as well or better as Robertson or his supporters.
The GOP has done a good job so far of winning the southern vote with bullshit (redneck-ese for canard). Democrats need to do better than bullshit.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. The word you are looking for (twice) is "canard". nt

[Skittles]

23. wrong

this guy is on the wrong side of history and in a couple of decades he'll be just like the racist assholes who used to scream about mixed marriages - silence is not much better than approval

and it's YOU'RE, not YOUR - OK???

[Stevenmarc]

12. Slavery is also "supported by the biblical scriptures."

Fortunately our laws aren't based on the biblical scriptures, well at least not yet.

[LonePirate]

27. I will never understand why reporters don't ask or make such follow-up comparisons

The media in this country truly is lazy and incompetent almost all of the time.

[summerschild]

13. Oh, Lord. They make me so tired.

Silent? My ass. They never shut up. And it's all so stupid.
I could care less.

[prismpalette]

18. aahhh jeez

I really am ticked off Alabama! Why is it that every stupid thing coming down the pike has you jumping on the bandwagon and looking oh so stereotypically Alabamian? This is a gorgeous state in so many ways but mostly brain dead-prolly from football injuries. And yes, I can criticize as I live here and am a liberal import. Days like this have me wondering why though....

[Turbineguy]

19. Ignorance and bigotry must be

enshrined.

[sakabatou]

20. *facepalm*

[SoapBox]

21. ...

[chungking34]

22. And this is supposed to help our country how?

Leave it to repuglicans to come up with such idiotic proposals as this.

[octoberlib]

24. Anything to keep people's minds off of the fact

that they're losing their unemployment and food stamps have been cut , and, oh yeah, no jobs bill. That's what this nonsense is all about.

[LiberalElite]

25. yep -

we're yelling at each other and the 1% laughs all the way in the chauffered-driven ride to the bank.

[anti partisan]

26. True that. This is one big stinking side show. (nt)