151 phil robertson is the outspoken patriarch of one of americas most famous families a family thats welcomed into the homes of millions of people every week on the hit ae show duck dynasty now the 68yearold is preparing to reach even more people with his new book unphiltered the way i see it in which he takes headon the comments that got him into hot water last year so people can read it and decide for themselves but people need to get it in their head dude i dont hate anybody robertson said in an interview with abc news ryan owens duck dynasty returns your ultimate guide to the cast conservative fans unhappy with ae over duck dynasty controversy ae says phil robertson to return to duck dynasty robertson was suspended by ae last december after the duck dynasty star gave inflammatory statements in a gq interview calling homosexuality a sin saying the nazis needed jesus and that he never saw the mistreatment of any black person growing up in louisiana before the civil rights era robertson later defended his comments and said all he did was quote from the bible and that he would not give or back off from my path i just said whether it be bestiality i couldve said pedophilia rape homosexual sin heterosexual sin robertson said to me i was just letting them know theyre all the same just sin when asked whether he considers himself a homophobe robertson drew a comparison to jesus im as much of a homophobe as jesus was he told owens the people who are participating in homosexual behavior they need to know that i love them as for robertsons comments that he never saw blacks mistreated robertson says he explains that in the book as well theres one race on this planet its called the human race robertson told owens were all the same to me there is absolutely nothing that has color to do with it robertsons almost madefortv life story began long before the beard when he was a cleancut college quarterback who gave up football when it interfered with duck hunting season he says he was an alcoholic and a womanizer until he found jesus at the age of 28 and says he was ashamed of the way he behaved then his conversion changed his life he says strengthened his marriage to his wife miss kay and turned his hobby of making duck calls into a multimilliondollar business im a highlyeducated man maybe a shocker to some robertson said i have a masters degree im no dumbo actually id rather be considered ignorant but be a lot smarter than they think i am than the other way around he said though robertson is a tv star who found himself in a social media firestorm and devotes an entire chapter of his book to americas addiction with social media you will not find him checking twitter or facebook on his cell phone i dont