This will be short and sweet but I have not seen anyone else express this point of view. The Duck Dynasty guys are marketing geniuses. It's the week before Christmas and the shelves are crammed with their t-shirts and books etc. Their new season starts next month and the RWNJ's are going crazy with their outrage and petitions and Facebook campaigns. So, they are making tons of money, when the show comes back on (and it will) the ratings will go through the roof and just who's laughing now?
This may or may not have been planned and these hirsute homophobic hicks have the right to believe whatever garbage they want to, but in my humble opinion this is no longer about free speech, it is about free publicity.