RE: Phil from Duck Dynasty gets in trouble for being against homosexuality
December 23, 2013 at 10:34 am
That's not so unusual for people who are on (or associated with) media of some form or another. Clauses of that sort are probably common in contracts if you are going to be on TV or radio in their various forms. For example, athletes in the major sports in the USA can be fined and even suspended for making certain comments or using certain words. The same with radio or TV personalities, who can also be fired under certain circumstances. Their right to free speech is not being violated; they are not being arrested or dragged to court to answer for a crime. But there may still be consequences for saying something that could damage your employer/sponsor's reputation or bottom line.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
