Last December, Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson caused a stir after telling GQ that homosexuality is a sin and that African Americans were more content under Jim Crow laws. Now, Robertson is peddling a new book and joined the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins radio show Tuesday to explain how sexually transmitted diseases are God’s punishment for homosexuality and other forms of sexual immorality.
“God says, ‘One woman, one man,’ and everyone says, ‘Oh, that’s old hat, that’s that old Bible stuff,’” he said. “But I’m thinking, well let’s see now. A clean guy — a disease-free guy and a disease-free woman — they marry and they keep their sex between the two of them. They’re not going to get chlamydia, and gonorrhea, and syphilis, and AIDS. It’s safe.”