Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson fires up the crowd by attacking President Obama before U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz takes the stage at a campaign event at the Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City, Iowa January 30, 2016.
The always politically controversial Phil Robertson has teamed with equally controversial Citizens United to raise money off of the North Carolina bathroom law that so many in the entertainment industry say discriminates against the transgender community.
“This is Phil Robertson from Duck Commander and I’ve got a radical idea,” the star of the Duck Dynasty TV franchise says in an email that went out to conservatives over the weekend.
“Men should use the men’s bathroom and women should use the women’s bathroom,” Robertson says in the email. “Just because a man may ‘feel’ like a woman doesn’t mean he should be able to share a bathroom with my daughter, or yours. That used to be called common sense. Now it’s called bigoted.”
The email includes a link to StandTallWithPhil.org, which asks for donations to an effort called Speak Freely from Citizens United in conjunction with Robertson.
Citizens United is best known for its anti-Hillary Clinton documentary that some tried to suppress, leading to a Supreme Court ruling which held that the government could not restrict political expenditures by nonprofit corporations. Clinton, to the delight of many Hollywood liberals, has vowed to somehow overturn the Citizens United decision if she’s elected president.
Since North Carolina enacted House Bill 2, stating that in schools and government buildings males and females need to use the bathrooms that coincide with the gender stated on their birth certificate, Hollywood liberals have practically declared war on the state.
Director-actor Rob Reiner got the ball rolling by saying supporters of the law are full of “hate, bigotry and discrimination” and that he won’t film there until the law is repealed. Disney and other studios then made similar proclamations, and artists such as Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr have canceled shows there in protest of the law.
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SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter – Paul Bond
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