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USA Today reports:
Professional hunter and TV personality Phil Robertson, best known for his role on the series “Duck Dynasty,” has died. He was 79. In an emotional May 25 Instagram post, Robertson’s son, Willie Robertson, and daughter-in-law, Korie Robertson, confirmed Phil died after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
“We celebrate today that our father, husband, and grandfather, Phil Robertson, is now with the Lord,” the couple wrote. “He reminded us often of the words of Paul, ‘You do not grieve like those who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.”
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Robertson last appeared here in 2020 when he endorsed the “ex-gay” Freedom March, which at the time was led by an anti-LGBTQ activist who later came out as transgender.
In 2019, Robertson appeared here when he declared that he doesn’t need universal healthcare because Jesus will raise him from the dead.
In 2016, Robertson starred in a Christian nationalist “documentary” directed by Steve Bannon, who at that time was Trump’s campaign manager.
Also in 2016, Robertson gave a speech at a right wing conference in which he blamed the US murder rate on gays. Yes, really.
And later in 2016, Robertson appeared at a rally for then-presidential candidate Ted Cruz to declare that same-sex marriage is a “perverted evil.”
Of note, at the same rally mentioned above, Robertson called Trump a “washed up reality star.”
In a flurry of 2014 appearances here, Robertson said that God only gives STDs to “immoral people,” that “all Muslims and all Chinese are controlled by Satan,” and that he’s “as much as a homophobe as Jesus was.”
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