Yes it does, especially in the bigger picture and political climate. He said this on a non-sequitor interview, not on A&E itself. Now it looks like A&E is just trying to squash him and what he stands for (even though they allow what I have already mentioned). They, among other groups, don't want this specific opinion of his to be popularized and that fits this bill perfectly.
As for ole big-mouth Bill, well that's awfully hypocritical of ABC...being incredibly leftist since it's early syndication history. But then again Maher's preachy demagoguery, straw-man verbal boxing, use of assertion and insult over dialogue and reasoning, his night militant bi-polarization of individuals, his idealogical witch-hunting, and his total lack of empathy and grace makes him a rather odious individual worth lancing, like a boil, an infected cyst, or say a testicular tumor. He has quite the tendency to attract neophyte moths to his sophomorically dim wit. As the old indian use to say, "big wind, lotsa thunder - no rain." I have many a friend both “left” and “right” in academia that despises that man for his media-hyping humbuggery... However, Phil Robertson was just being asked something outright, and he gave a concise answer and reflected on the issue. Unlike Maher he wasn’t on some constant hackneyed leftist jihad out to jib someone in their eye in, he was being interviewed, he was honest when it came up, and then he was thereby summarily judged for his beliefs.
Pet cause? My, my, someone is being a bit testy (And pusillanimously euphemistic)... If you want to make personal attacks on all these above people’s 'pet-cuases' (their worldviews), Kef, grow a pair and say it out right… Broadly, I say it’s this ethical and ideological censorship and the media fuss it creates that is distracting us from more important issues. Moreover, it is erroding our freedoms and unity as a country. When I look back though, seeing your assinine 'giving-in-to-the-bully' remark about healthcare and then even earlier your post ergo propter hoc argumentation about thermodynamics and photosynthesis pertaining to the hypothesis abiogenisis, I feel you have little ethos in such matters of argumentation, and lack the logos for intellectual debate, but you do have pathos, I give you that, like Maer you are very... pathological.
Please, for your own sake, start entertaining arguments and trying to understand where they are coming from, instead of insulting them (like you do Vlad) and correcting people like know more than them (which you do all the time)…I gave you the chance once to discuss an issue at length, in private, and via syntopical reading, but you were too "tired" (as if you couldn't somehow - I odn't know - rest between posts)... Callow and shallow remarks like the one above are just digging you into a deep hole.
And to be fair, I'm gonna say Vlad's statments were a bit non-sequitor and inflamatory as well...just to be fair. Two wrongs don't make a right (though they make a left). *Rimshot*.