July 06, 2016 04:20 PM UTC

Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson: Gays Cause All The Murders

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• by: Colorado Pols

Here’s a clip of video from the speech given at last weekend’s Western Conservative Summit at the Colorado Convention Center by Phil Robertson, the controversial patriarch of the reality TV Duck Dynasty family. Known for his far-right and frequently offensive ramblings, Robertson rallied the crowd at WCS ’16 to raucous cheering several times.

Including with this bit about how the gays are at “behind” 160,000 murders in the United States during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Don’t take our word for it, we’ll let the Duck Commander himself ‘splain:

ROBERTSON: What y’all are seeing in America is the children of the Evil One. What does it look like out there? How many did we lose in Iraq and Afghanistan? With all that firepower, how many did we lose? Huh? Six, seven thousand? Guess how many were murdered on the streets of America during the same time frame? About a hundred and sixty thousand. Everybody said well we don’t want to waste our blood and treasure over there, I understand. I hate to lose one. But at the time of those two wars over the last thirteen fourteen years, you see going on right here in America, one hundred and sixty thousand were murdered! Sounds like we’ve got a bigger war going on here than over there.

Well who’s behind it? Who is behind it? When you allow men to determine, as Zach said, what’s right and what’s wrong, you get decisions like the five judges who said, I mean I know we have seven thousand years of history, of men marrying women, a male and a female, for that reason, they’ll leave their father and mother and cleave to one another and become one flesh, I know it’s been that way for seven thousand years, but we know best for what’s everyone. We know best. Trust us, we know what we’re doing.

And now there’s grown men barging in on you ladies when you’re putting your Maybelline on. Uh, here’s a news flash: you see this? (tugs at beard) This be male. Ladies, ladies, all you ladies, you will never ever catch this cat coming up in your bathroom. Ever! You know why? I’m a man. And men don’t go in women’s bathrooms!

But if you let human beings, if you allow human beings to decide what’s for you, what’s right and what’s wrong, that’s what you get. Should have checked with God. When you let human beings decide what’s good, what’s evil, look out. When this Bible stops being your standard of conduct when it comes to good and evil…we’re going to lose America. We are already well into the collapse. It’s not fixing to collapse, it’s already started collapsing.

Now folks, you might ask yourself, why didn’t the mainstream media pick up any of this? Why was all the coverage of the Western Conservative Summit, excepting a few obligatory write-ups about Trump’s difficulty pacifying Colorado Republicans, a bunch of fluff when featured speakers at the event were blaming gays for every murder in America–and announcing that America has “already started collapsing?” Perhaps that would have made conservative readers and viewers, you know, uncomfortable?

Probably not as uncomfortable as any gay people in that audience. And that ought to be a story.