Marc Lamont Hill Denounces A&E’s ‘Morally Reprehensible’ Decision to Keep Phil Robertson

CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill spoke out loudly against A&E’s decision to effectively lift it’s “suspension” of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson. While he said he’s not “surprised” they made the decision to keep filming with the whole Robertson family, Hill found that decision “morally reprehensible.”

“They had to make some sort of gesture to make people happy,” Hill said of the network, “and they did that with the suspension which essentially meant nothing.” Just a Bible network wouldn’t want a “card-carrying atheist” to represent them, he continued, A&E should be able to keep a “card-carrying homophobe” off its air out of respect for the LGBT community.

“A&E decided that the 14 million viewers and millions and hundreds of millions of dollars that come with that is worth more than the LGBT community. That was the choice that they made,” Hill continued. “They were swayed by the market and unfortunately justice lost out this time.”

Before the segment ended, Hill noted that this whole story proves that homophobia is “the last form of discrimination that’s publicly acceptable. That’s what we learned from this, that it’s still okay to not like gay people in full public space and you can get rich off of it.”

Watch video below, via CNN:

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