"A clean, disease-free guy and woman marry and keep their sex between the two of them..."

[Miles Archer]

WASHINGTON -- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal -- a likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 -- declined on Tuesday to criticize or even comment directly on the latest controversial remarks of "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson.

The patriarch of one of America's biggest cable television shows is a constituent of Jindal, and Robertson suggested last week that sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV are God's punishment for "immorality."

"If you just look at the physiological downside to immorality," Robertson said in a radio interview with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. "I mean, a great question to ask is ... do you think that it's a coincidence that all of these debilitating -- and, literally, it can cause death -- diseases follow that kind of conduct. God says, 'One woman, one man' and everybody says, 'Oh that's old hat. That's that old Bible stuff.'"

"And I'm thinking, 'Well, let's see now, a clean, disease-free guy and a disease-free woman they marry and they keep their sex between the two of them, they're not gonna get chlamydia and gonorrhea and syphilis and AIDS.' It's safe. Now, to me, either it's the wildest coincidence ever that horrible diseases follow immoral conduct or it's God saying there's a penalty for that kind of conduct. I'm leaning towards there's a penalty toward it," he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/bobby-jindal-phil-robertson_n_5829716.html

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1. if horrible diseases followed immoral conduct, the republican party would have died out long ago.

[Scuba]

2. I know a couple like that - squeeky clean types.

He died of cancer.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Or it could be that viruses and bacteria and parasites have evolved

over millions of years to exploit the behavior of host species but I guess science is not this asshole fake hillbilly's cup of tea. He probably thinks why the sky is blue is a mystery of god.

[Blue_Adept]

4. Robertson is our penalty for indulging assholes too often.

And giving them loads of money to act like assholes on TV.

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. That's one of the reasons I hate those reality TV shows so much.

They make assholes famous.

[Initech]

17. Thanks to the internet there is no such thing as "15 minutes" anymore.

The Duck Dynasty asshats should have been gone from the public consciousness a long time ago, but they just refuse to go away. I'll never watch a single second of that show or buy any of their crappy merchandise.

[arcane1]

5. Why do we give that idiot such unwarranted attention?

And the duck guy too!

[hunter]

6. God must really hate automobiles since so many of us are killed and maimed by them.

Guns? Does Mr. Duck even want to go there?

If God approved of guns maybe we'd all be bulletproof, like Superman!

[ProfessorGAC]

11. He Must Hate Volvos A Little Less

It's the only logical explanation!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine

Not to mention exceptionally stupid.

[Dont call me Shirley]

8. So Phil has followed through on his purity? Right......

[Terra Alta]

9. Hey, Phil, the 80s called

they want their bigoted, inaccurate talking points back.

As for Jindal, of course he won't criticize the comments, he probably supports Phil the bigot 100%.

[Feral Child]

10. Does that explain

the people that have gotten HIV from transfusions?

The children that contracted the disease in the womb?

Or is that just god's "collateral damage"?

[strawberries]

12. great post!

I was having the same thoughts

[Feral Child]

13. Thanks, strawberries

and welcome to DU!

[strawberries]

22. thanks

love the pics

[LordGlenconner]

14. What an interesting concept. A man who looks utterly filthy

Talking about cleanliness.

I've officially seen and heard it all.

[maryellen99]

20. It's all an act

They grew the beards and started looking like that for the show. There was a picture of them posted before they were famous and they really look like a bunch of white bread preppy Mitt Romneys.

[LondonReign2]

16. Influenza

What conduct is God penalizing humans for there, Phil?

[stevenleser]

21. Or Malaria which is supposedly the greatest killer of humans of all time. nt

[RiffRandell]

18. Was God punishing the Christian Missionaries that contracted Ebola?

Hey Pat....shut the fuck up! He doesn't worry me, but nonetheless:

[NickB79]

19. Someone needs to ask him how those diseases made it onto the Ark in the first place

All those moral, God-fearing people saved from destruction, and yet they carried dozens upon dozens of STD's among a handful of human survivors (if you believe that shit).