Duck Dynasty, Wine, and Homosexuality

Duck Dynasty has become a huge success story on TV. 
Some of the reasons for Duck Dynasty’s success:

Even though they get a little edgy, they are still a refreshing change from the filth and immorality regularly shown on TV.

They emphasize Faith, Family, Fun, Facial Hair.

They often show men acting like men, and women acting like women. Of course, they play to an audience and act a little crazy. Some of the rest of us on occasion do so in real life.

They’re like a lot of country folk I grew up with. Take away the money, the beards, and the wine, and they’re like some of my family, myself included.

Some appreciate educated, intelligent people that do not necessarily have to “act like” they are important, educated, or intelligent.

Again, while we will disagree with some of their theology and practices, it sure is nice to see their emphasis on faith, family, and a Christian sense of morality.

I obviously disagree with some of their theology and their vineyard. Not that I have a problem with a vineyard. I just have a problem taking the fresh, un-intoxicating fruit of the vine, and turning it into a dangerous, addictive drug. Maybe they could check out Draper Valley Vineyard, a vineyard that produces nonalcoholic wine/ grape juice from wine grapes (their Pinot Noir is outstanding).

While I enjoy Duck Dynasty, I agree with the stand Free Will Baptists recently took against the Robertson’s promotion of alcohol. They were right that it would send a mixed message to the kids in their Children’s Home. For a good article on this see:

http://www.brnow.org/Opinions/Guest-Columns/November-2013/Free-Will-Baptists-cancel-Duck-Dynasty-event


While I criticize them on the issue of alcohol, I agree with them on the issue of homosexuality. I would not have put the issue quite as crudely, but Phil Robertson was biblically correct in this opinion. We are to love all people, but God makes it perfectly clear that a homosexual lifestyle is sinful.

Hollywood and the Media one day will have a stark surprise at how a holy God views their creative work:

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. -Romans 1:26-27

While a little less crude, Holy Scripture bears a striking resemblance to Phil Robertson’s words.

For more on this most recent issue, see Baptist Press:

http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=41702


This is not just an issue of Free Speech. It is also an issue of Religious Liberty. Do America and our Media now only have room for one view? Just this morning national news labeled Phil Robertson’s view against homosexual acts as “homophobic.” Yet this is what the Bible and Christianity have taught for 2,000 years.

We also note their hypocrisy in ignoring these issues when it involves one of their own.

May America continue to be the land of the free. May Christians continue to have the freedom to speak the truth of the Bible. And may we strive to “speak the truth in love.”

-David R. Brumbelow, Gulf Coast Pastor, December 20, AD 2013. 

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