So Saying That Folks Should Follow Christian Morals is NOW A Firing Offense

It is a matter of capitalism. If the network and sponsors conclude that the character is going to lose money for them, he has to go.

Bullshit it is another example of PC running amok and a small minority trying to dictate what people can say in the public square without fear for doing so.

The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all." Now the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all.
http://www.adl.org/about-adl/

The group then turned its attention to what it perceived as cultural slights against Italian-Americans, using boycott threats to force Alka-Seltzer and The Ford Motor Company to withdraw television commercials the league objected to, and also got United States Attorney General John Mitchell to order the United States Justice Department to stop using the word "Mafia" in official documents and press releases. The league also secured an agreement from Al Ruddy, the producer of The Godfather, to omit the terms "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" from the film's dialogue, and succeeded in having Macy's stop selling a board game called The Godfather Game. The IACRL boycotted the Ford Motor Company because of its sponsorship of the television show The F.B.I. and its negative references to Italian-Americans as gangsters. Alka Seltzer was boycotted for its "Dat's a Spicy Meatball" ad campaign....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-American_Civil_Rights_League

“Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion,” Robertson said in the video. “They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant God haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless, they invent ways of doing evil.”
http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/ae-grapples-with-death-threats-and-clan-ultimatum-on-duck-dynasty-star-suspension/

Politics, policies and positions

The Family Research Council opposes efforts to make a vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV), a virus that causes cervical cancer, mandatory for school attendance. It defends this on the basis of rights of parents and because of its support for abstinence prior to marriage.

It supports a federal conscience clause, allowing medical workers to refuse to provide certain treatments to their patients, such as abortion, blood transfusion or birth control. It also advocates for abstinence-only sex education, intelligent design and prayer in public schools, and the regulation of pornography and other "obscene, indecent, or profane programming" on broadcast and cable television. It opposed, but failed to defeat, the introduction of a .xxx domain name, and it lobbied for an increase in indecency fines from the Federal Communications Commission.

The FRC also holds that hotel pornography may be prosecutable under federal and state obscenity laws. It opposes the expansion of civil rights laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity as illegal bases for discrimination.

The Family Research Council is also fiscally conservative and wants to increase the child tax credit. The FRC supports the requirement of a one-year waiting period before a married couple with children can legally get a divorce so that they can receive marital counseling, unless the marriage involves domestic violence. Permanently eliminating the marriage penalty and estate taxes are also issues FRC supports.

The Family Research Council opposes legalized abortion, stem-cell research which involves the destruction of human embryos and funding thereof (instead advocating research using adult stem cells), legal recognition of same-sex domestic partnerships in the form of marriage or civil unions, and all forms of gambling. The Family Research Council has questioned the idea that humans are mainly or completely responsible for climate change, and has opposed other evangelicals who have affirmed their belief of global warming.

Statements on homosexuality

According to the Family Research Council, "homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed" and it is "by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical and psychological health effects." The Council also asserts that "there is no convincing evidence that a homosexual identity is ever something genetic or inborn". An amicus brief was submitted by the Council jointly with Focus on the Family in the U.S. Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, the case that overturned sodomy laws on privacy grounds. The summary of the amicus curiae brief declares that "States may discourage the 'evils' ... of sexual acts outside of marriage by means up to and including criminal prohibition" and that it is constitutionally permissible for Texas to "choose to protect marital intimacy by prohibiting same-sex 'deviate' acts". Similar positions have been advocated by representatives of the organisation since the Supreme Court case was decided in 2003.

In February 2010, the Family Research Council's Senior Researcher for Policy Studies, Peter Sprigg, stated on NBC's Hardball that gay behavior should be outlawed and that "criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior" should be enforced. In May that same year, Sprigg publicly suggested that repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy would encourage molestation of heterosexual service members. In November 2010, Perkins was asked about Sprigg's comments regarding the criminalization of same-sex behavior: he responded that criminalizing homosexuality is not a goal of the Family Research Council. Perkins repeated the FRC's association of homosexuals with pedophilia, stating: "If you look at the American College of Pediatricians, they say the research is overwhelming that homosexuality poses a danger to children." The opinions expressed by Perkins are contradicted by mainstream social science research on same-sex parenting, and on the likelihood of child molestation by homosexuals and bisexuals, which has been found to be no higher than child molestation by heterosexuals. Some scientists whose work is cited by the American College of Pediatricians - a small conservative organization which was formed when the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed adoption by same-sex couples - have said that it has distorted and misrepresented their work. The opinions and statements made by Sprigg and Perkins in 2010 contributed to the decision by the Southern Poverty Law Center to designate the FRC as a hate group in the Winter 2010 issue of its magazine, Intelligence Report.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Council

All the homosexual advocacy groups want is to have the same civil rights as everyone else, and not to be unfairly defamed or portrayed. That's not "PC"--it's asking to be treated with basic civility and civil rights. And they are not trying to limit or control other people's behavior the way that a group like the Family Research Council is trying to do.

All groups have the right to be protected from unfair discrimination and from becoming targets of hate. The ADL was originally founded in 1913 to confront anti-Semitism, it now fights to protect the civil and human rights of all groups--including homosexuals.

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I rest my case.

No, you have put your case out of reach, in your eyes. Believe it or not, some people just might know more about Islam, among other things, than you.

I dont organize my politics along traditional american lines.

I think A & E's problem is that they tried to straddle both sides of the fence on this one.

This isn't about "freedom" of anything--it's about attracting viewers and advertising revenue.

If Bashir's comments might incite violence then we should apply the same standard to everyone don't you think?

In a per curiam opinion, the Court concluded, without hearing arguments, that Watts' statement was "political hyperbole". The Court noted, "The language of the political arena… is often vituperative, abusive, and inexact." Thus, considering the "context, and regarding the expressly conditional nature of the statement and the reaction of the listeners," the Court ruled that Watts' statement was not a true threat.

Kids cards for veterans refused; ‘Merry Christmas,’‘God bless you’ not allowed!

The government didn't put Phil on a hiatus (whatever that turns out to mean), his employer did. A&E may have succumbed to the pressure of a small group due to cowardice, principle or cynical economics, but they have not attempted to silence the man.

So far, the controversy understandably has been framed as a fight over free speech. My National Review colleague Mark Steyn writes: "Most Christian opponents of gay marriage oppose gay marriage; they don't oppose the right of gays to advocate it. Yet thug groups like GLAAD increasingly oppose the right of Christians even to argue their corner. It's quicker and more effective to silence them."

I think Steyn has the causation right. The free-speech issues are the inevitable consequence of a venerable argument about what a free society is.

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The children of Burke form the philosophical core of what was called the "leave me alone coalition," a broad group of institutions and individuals who rightly, and occasionally wrongly, rejected a top-down effort to impose a one-size-fits-all vision of society. The children of Paine, empowered by their sense of cosmic justice, want all of society's oars to pull as one. And if you don't pull your oar to the beat of their drum, prepare for their wrath.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg-duck-dynasty-society-20131224,0,3960913.column#ixzz2oPiV28Ha

A majority exerting economic pressure is not censorship or totalitarianism, it's the market.

Absolutely astonishing’: Over 1.4M join ‘Boycott A&E’ Facebook page

December 20, 2013 by Janeen Capizola 61 Comments
Never underestimate the power of free speech loving, American patriots who use social media.

“Absolutely astonishing” is how the Facebook administrators for the “Boycott A&E Until Phil Robertson Is Put Back On Duck Dynasty” described hitting 1 million “Likes” in less than 24 hours.

The page was established Wednesday to “show support for the freedom of speech of Americans,” and supported by people who agreed: “Unless Phil is reinstated to the show, we refuse to watch the A&E Channel!”

This was important to the administrators because the despicable powers-that-be at A&E aired a “Duck Dynasty” marathon Friday night.

As of this writing, in less than 30 hours, the page has 1.3 million “Likes” and is on track to hit 2 million, possibly by the end of Friday, the administrators wrote.

A fun fact reported by Truth Revolt:

In its first 24 hours, a Facebook page launched with the goal of reinstating Phil Robertson to Duck Dynasty has gathered hundreds of thousands of more supporters than Obamacare had enrollees in that program’s first two months.