“Duck Dynasty” Christmas Album Still a Top Seller
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Jeff Reidel/GQ(NEW YORK) — While A&E has suspended Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson, his comments about God and sin haven’t dampened business for products related to the reality show.
The family’s Christmas album, Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas, remains a top 10 album in iTunes. You can download the album for $11.99 or any of the individual 14 songs, for $1.29, such as “Ragin’ Cajun Redneck Christmas.” The album’s recording label 4 Beards Music Group LLC is under exclusive license to EMI Records Nashville, according to the album’s iTunes description.
On Thursday, Billboard said that the album, which has sold at least 575,000 copies, sold about 125,000 copies for the week ending Dec. 22. The album was number six on the Billboard 200 chart.
In an interview with GQ magazine, Phil Robertson, 67, who turned to God after his own struggles with morality, explained that in his eyes, homosexual behavior — along with bestiality — is sinful.
“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there,” he said. “Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.”
Still, “We never, ever judge someone on who’s going to heaven, hell. That’s the Almighty’s job,” he added. “We just love ‘em, give ‘em the good news about Jesus — whether they’re homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. We let God sort ‘em out later, you see what I’m saying?”
GLAAD released a statement calling his sentiments “some of the most vilest and most extreme statements uttered against LGBT people in a mainstream publication.”
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