Sadie Robertson Huff Speaks Out on Cancel Culture among Christians: ‘Give People Grace’

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Duck Dynasty Revival star Sadie Robertson Huff says a run-in with cancel culture has fueled her goal of urging Christians to assume the best and answer disagreements with grace, not hate. Huff’s brush with cancel culture involved a TikTok video she and her sister, Bella Robertson, posted in 2024 of them line-dancing to Beyonce’s country song Texas Hold ‘Em. The sisters posted the clip for fun but soon realized some fellow Christians didn’t share their good-natured intent.

“I’m talking within hours, it was going viral,” Robertson told host Rich Wilkerson Jr. on the Mature Me podcast, according to Taste of Country.

Christians, she said, were driving the pushback.

“Youth pastors start posting videos telling their students that they need to unfollow me,” she said. “That I, you know, [am] such a bad example. How could I be on the stage and then listen to music like this?

“What made me sad and was so eye-opening is I was like, ‘Man, I didn't even really feel like I did something wrong and this is the response.’ What if I actually did mess up? God forbid I be a human.”

Huff stars in the A&E series Duck Dynasty Revival and hosts her own podcast, WHOA That's Good. She is speaking out about the incident, she said, because she hopes to spark change within the church.

“The body is supposed to have your back,” she said. “We're supposed to be able to confess our sins and be healed. This is supposed to be a safe place, a family where you go, ‘Hey, I've been struggling with this’ and you're not met with criticism and judgment. You're actually met with love. Here I am doing this thing that I didn't even know was wrong and all of a sudden it's like, whoa, cancel culture. It's not cancel culture from the world, it's cancel culture in the church.”

 

Instead of using social media to be “unifying,” she said, too many Christians are stoking “division and hate.”

“Yes, we hold each other accountable, but also, like, [we should] believe the best in someone,” she told Fox News Digital. “... We have to learn how to give people grace and actually encourage people instead of rejoicing”

Robertson cited 1 Corinthians 13:6, saying love “does not rejoice at wrongdoing.”

“It rejoices in the truth. It rejoices in good things. I think sometimes on social media, you see people almost rejoice when someone else does the wrong thing or falls down,” she told Fox News Digital. “... And so [the video] actually led into a really cool conversation. And even though that was an unfortunate thing, I think the fruit of it has been really cool, because I've had good conversation and got to talk about maybe helping social media become a better place.”

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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel. 

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