Phil Robertson, the “redneck” “hillbilly” who made the comments, is a graduate of Louisiana Tech and was their starting quarterback – ahead of Terry Bradshaw.
Characterizing him as being ignorant because of where he’s from, how he dresses, how he speaks or acts is rather like the same kind of bigotry that he is being accused of – only using it as an “excuse,” from his supposed defenders, which strikes me as a tad bit hypocritical. (Pot, meet kettle.)
Let’s just say the Westboro Baptist Church has his back, and they have never been known to side with anything but pure evil. But let’s call hate and bigotry what they are – and not try to excuse it. Hiding behind the Bible or the Constitution is utter bullshit. He can say and believe anything he likes, and I’m glad he does it in the open, just as Westboro does, so we can give him and his ilk wide berth, and heap upon them the scorn they deserve.