Duck Dynasty's Willie Robertson ''Trying to Figure Out'' If People Are Born Gay: ''I'm Not the Judge. God's Gonna Be the Judge''

Reality star reflects on the controversy surrounding his family's conservative views

By Brett Malec Dec 17, 2014 8:43 PMTags

One year after Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson blasted homosexuality and compared being gay to bestiality and adultery, Phil's son Willie Robertson is reflecting on the controversy surrounding his family's conservative beliefs.

"We stood by our father. We stood by him as a family again," Willie says of defending his father on a new episode of Larry King Now. "Some of the things he said in that interview I didn't agree with and I've even said so, and he's even come out and said, ‘Yeah, that was a mistake.' With things leading to bestiality, it was a mixed bag there of things. And then he quoted a Scripture, and that's what's in the Scripture. What I want people to know and what we've said over and over and over is that we love everybody."

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Willie says after the anti-gay controversy died down a little, he has worked closely with gay people who work on his show and at the A&E network to try and be more accepting. However, he still isn't sure if homosexuality is a choice or if people are born gay.

"I'm trying to figure that out right now, I really am," he admitted to Larry King. "Since the controversy and since I know all these people and if the thought is, ‘I'm born this way,' I don't know. I'm trying to figure out myself though the passages. Because I always have to look through the Scriptures to see what's there and then I put it up against people, put my time in, so I've spent time with people."

"I'm not the judge. God's gonna be the judge," Willie added. "So it's not my job to convince people to change their lives. It's really through Jesus—if I introduce them to Jesus, he'll do that. All I can do on the surface is love people, accept people, be kind and be respectful to people and I think as a family that's what we do."