Statement

This is my first public statement as a presidential candidate.

I do not watch cable television and normally could not care about what is presented or how the cable channels are otherwise run.  Given that, the act of the A&E network of suspending Phil Robertson, the head of the family presented in the program Duck Dynasty, is in my view an act of sheer lunacy.

The absolute fact of reality is that each person has a distinct experience of reality. Every person must reach their own conclusions about other people and and their place in reality altogether.

This is not a right.  This is an absolute fact of realty.

Those speaking for a homosexual collective have voice their aversion to statements made by Mr. Roberson on the practice  of homosexuality.*

So what?

Phil Robertson, as with all persons, has the moral obligation to see things as they are, to exercise judgement, and to speak on such matters as necessary.  The attack on Phil Robertson is an attack on all Americans.  Phil is simply the first target.

No one, singly or as part of a collective, has the right to silence another person.  The A&E networks have the right to control what they broadcast.  And they clearly have the right to stand up to collectivist pressure groups.

The management of A&E has the right and moral obligation to themselves, their staff, their actual audience, and their stockholders to tell the Homosexual Collective to bugger off.

To say that A&E should rescind their actions with respect to the Phil  Robertson and his family and apologize to them should go without saying.


*  Seriously, in my opinion, there is nothing special about the practice of assisted masturbation.  It is filthy, unhealthy, and frankly stupid.