Duck Dynasty can teach us

 What Duck Dynasty can teach us about “Christian Media”

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Imagine for a moment you are a fly, kicking it on the wall, in a fancy board room. The year is 2011. You are in the offices of A&E,
Scott Gurney a former Gay porn star walks in, and says “Let’s take some redneck, Bible loving, God quoting, gun toting millionaires from Louisiana, and make a reality show exposing the ignorance of the Bible belt.”
The board loves it. A few jokes about republican Christians come up, the board laughs, another about hunting ducks come up. The timing is perfect. Obama will be reelected. Let’s throw some salt in the wound...Read more

L’affaire Robertson

Posted on Thursday, December 19, 2013 by Douglas Wilson 

Unaccustomed as I am to writing about current events as they unfold, I can only suggest a few takeaway lessons from the l’affaire Robertson, as he might put it. As I have been able to reconstruct the events, A&E put Phil Robertson on hiatus from the reality show Duck Dynasty for making disparaging comments about homosexuality in GQ magazine. The memorable words of T.S. Eliot in the Four Quartets come to mind — “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” This goes particularly for toney producers of reality shows, who are unaccustomed to having one of the swamp people emerge from the fens to inform them, denizens of a sophisticated and urbane cosmopolis as they are, that the human body was given just one sex organ and the poochute is not it. They got a little too much actual reality from one of their reality stars and so they went all Eliot on him.
Three lessons then. That should be sufficient, at least for the time being....Read more
 

 The Scars on Your Forearms

Posted on Tuesday, December 24, 2013 by Douglas Wilson 

....Time to lean in. This is why I want to come back to the third point I made about this imbroglio yesterday. This whole thing makes me think it is some kind of reprise of the Chick Fil A uproar. Somebody strayed from the Appointed Way, the homolobby flexed in order to shut up a critic, middle America responded by buying so many metric tons of chicken sandwiches, and then sophisticated Christians sneered at this inadequate and “entirely predictable” and “red statey” response. The same thing has happened in the aftermath of Robertson’s comments. He said what he did, A&E suspended him for it, and more than a million regular folks have signed on to a “Stand With Phil” website. And, here comes the point of this post, Christian sophisticates are critical of . . . you guessed it! But this reminds me of something that D.L. Moody once said — “I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.”....Read article 

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The Genuine Conflict Being Ignored in the Duck Dynasty Debate

An evangelical Christian points out that there is, in fact, a tension between orthodox Christianity and homosexuality. Saying otherwise robs American society of an honest debate about how to reconcile sexual tolerance with religious tolerance...Read more