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Phil Robertson is no stranger to controversy. Just days after his anti-gay and racially insensitive comments appeared in GQ magazine, he was temporarily suspended from his popular A&E show "Duck Dynasty." When fans complained, the network reinstated him. Now, he's back in the headlines for a newly surfaced video.
The 2009 footage, which was posted on Youtube, shows the 67-year-old reality TV star speaking at a Christian retreat in Georgia. During the speech, he tells a story about advising a young man to find a good Christian girl and marry her.
“Make sure that she can cook a meal. You need to eat some meals that she cooks, check that out. Make sure she carries her Bible. That’ll save you a lot of trouble down the road," Robertson said.
He then went on to say that men should wed girls who are young.
“They got to where they're getting hard to find, mainly because these boys are waiting ‘til they get to be about 20 years old before they marry 'em,” Robertson said. “Look, you wait ‘til they get to be 20 years old the only picking that’s going to take place is your pocket. You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16. They’ll pick your ducks."
'Duck Dynasty' Star Phil Robertson Advises Men To Marry 15-Year-Old Girls (VIDEO)
I beg your pardon? Marry 'em young before they reach the ripe old age of 20 and come after your money?
So 2 men/women having consensual sex while both being over 18 is a sin but statutory rape or marrying 15 year old girls is not a sin?
The thing that isn't a crime is a sin and people should not do that but the thing that is a crime is promoted by this bible wielding preacher?
Girls should not be getting married at age 15, men who commit sex with girls of 15 years should be jailed for pedophilia and people who promote such behavior should have their heads examined.
But I am sure that even this kind of thinking will be defended by some because Phil Robertson is speaking from his own experience (marrying his wife when she was 16).