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A&E Networks could have another PR headache on its hands with “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson. Less than six months after Mr. Robertson made disparaging remarks against homosexuality in an article that ran in GQ magazine, a video has surfaced of him making similar comments last month during an Easter Sunday service. It also comes just weeks ahead of the return of the A&E reality series.

During a sermon on Easter Sunday, Mr. Robertson acknowledged the GQ article, which was posted online in December.

“Don’t deceive yourselves,” he said. “You want the verse? The news media didn’t even know it was a verse. They thought I just made it up. Is homosexuality a sin, the guy asked me. I said do you not know the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God.”

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The world might be festooned with ads, but magazine covers had remained largely ad-free until this week, when a tiny Verizon Wireless ad appeared on the cover of Time magazine. The same ad is scheduled to land on the cover of Sports Illustrated on Wednesday.

Consumer magazines have for years flirted with putting ads on their covers, though when it’s happened, the ads have usually shown up as cover wraps, in which an ad literally wraps around the cover, or a sticker that can be removed. But publishers have almost always avoided actually putting ads on their covers, because the real estate is thought of as the editor’s first and best statement to readers, one that should be presented without interference from an ad. The influential American Society of Magazine Editors also advises its members to avoid the practice.

But the line seems to have been breached. And even though Verizon’s ad is tiny enough that many readers might miss it, Time and Sports Illustrated’s parent company, Time Inc., is shopping around ads that appear across the bottom of its other magazines, like Fortune and Money, according to people who have seen mockups of the ad.

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